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GooseKria

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Registered: 2023-10-20

Posts: 1

No fingerprint scanner ThinkPad

I tried to set up a fingerprint scanner on the thinkpad 15 gen2, but the attempt was unsuccessful.

I installed fprint and fingerprint-gui, but nothing worked.

$ fingerprint-identifier
Warning: Ignoring XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland on Gnome. Use QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland to run on Wayland anyway.
Found no devices that can identify. Aborting.

Also, when I try to install thinkfinger, an error pops up:

pam_thinkfinger.c: In function ‘pam_thinkfinger_log’:
pam_thinkfinger.c:69:58: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
   69 |                 pam_syslog (pam_thinkfinger->pamh, type, message);

==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...
 -> error making: thinkfinger-exit status 4

lsusb doesn't have it either:

➜   lsusb
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 06cb:00da Synaptics, Inc. 
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04f2:b6be Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Integrated Camera
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 8087:0026 Intel Corp. AX201 Bluetooth
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

HELP...

twelveeighty

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Registered: 2011-09-04

Posts: 1,439

Re: No fingerprint scanner ThinkPad

If the device itself isn't listed in 'lsusb'. then installing any fingerprint tools is pointless. Check dmesg if there's any low-level error reported for the device, otherwise you'll have to do some digging on the fprint project Wiki.