[Bug 429070] Re: Upek Fingerprint Reader does not work

[Aryan Pourbaghery J.]

Hey everybody,
I guess I've figured it out too! A detailed yet-quite-long roadmap is here: https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fprint
Mine is a Sony Vaio VGN-SZ780N5 with a UPEK TouchStrip (147e:2016) coprocessor(check here whether yours is supported too: http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Supported_devices ). It works just fine on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 final (only! for Karmic you have to get the relevant packages in spite of one minor fault with the UI which is correctable by changing commands from gksu to gksu-polkit). I had to install a few libraries and firmwares though, including libfprint, fprint-demo,fprintd, libpam-fprintd (do not confuse it with libpam-fprint, the final “d” means sth!) and gksu-polkit. 
The steps are typically as follows:
1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fingerprint/fprint 
(which as of today till the day it is fixed will not work(!) and you have to manually add these two lines to your software resources under system>administration>software resources:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/fingerprint/fprint/ubuntu lucid main 
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/fingerprint/fprint/ubuntu lucid main )
2. sudo apt-get update
3. sudo apt-get install libfprint0 fprint-demo
4. sudo apt-get install libpam-fprintd
5. If there were no errors on the way (except the ones already mentioned) you are good to go. go to Applications > Accessories > fprint where you can enroll,verify,... your fingerprints  and oh! BTW you might wanna restart or wait a few minutes for the 1st time of running fprint-demo cause it seems to need a little bit of time to signal the sensor for the first time. go to System > Preferences > About Me and on the top right corner you should see the Enable Fingerprint Login button. Bingo!

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Upek Fingerprint Reader does not work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429070
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