My lonovo thinkbook 15 fingerprint not work and not exsist setting options

Hossein Piri

2/15/24, 9:25 PM

I bought a Lenovo Thinkbook laptop, the problem I have is that the fingerprint settings are not activated for me, and I don't know where the problem comes from.

I am sending the output of a series of commands. Thank you for your help.

lsusb

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0489:e0cd Foxconn / Hon Hai Wireless_Device
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 04f3:0c4b Elan Microelectronics Corp. ELAN:Fingerprint
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 24ae:2013 Shenzhen Rapoo Technology Co., Ltd. Rapoo 2.4G Wireless Device
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 002: ID 5986:212b Acer, Inc Integrated Camera
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

sudo apt install libpam-fprintd

[sudo] password for hossein: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
libpam-fprintd is already the newest version (1.94.2-1ubuntu0.22.04.1).
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libapache2-mod-php8.1
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 325 not upgraded.

sudo apt install libpam-fprintd

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
libpam-fprintd is already the newest version (1.94.2-1ubuntu0.22.04.1).
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
  libapache2-mod-php8.1
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 325 not upgraded.

sudo pam-auth-update

Users setting

1 + 0

lenovo

22.04

Score:1

Ubuntu

popey

2/15/24, 9:53 PM

Sadly this fingerprint device is not yet supported. There's a list on the Arch Wiki of Lenovo devices, and it highlights those with a non-functional fingerprint reader. Your device (USB ID 04f3:0c4b is on the list highlighted in red).

On the good side the upstream libfprint developers have an open merge request which hopes to enable this device. Sadly it's not yet working.

+ 2

Hossein Piri

2/15/24, 11:24 PM

Do you think it is possible to compile Ubuntu and add this merge request to it?

popey

2/16/24, 10:38 AM

It may be possible to build a test deb and install that, for sure. But from the comments on the merge request it doesn't work reliably enough as it is, so not a lot of point right now.

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