Driver for Validity Sensors Fingerprint scanner
prakhar@pr3d4tOr:~$ lsusb -s 001:003 -v
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 138a:0018 Validity Sensors, Inc. Fingerprint scanner
Couldn't open device, some information will be missing
Device Descriptor:
bLength 18
bDescriptorType 1
bcdUSB 1.10
bDeviceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bDeviceSubClass 17
bDeviceProtocol 255
bMaxPacketSize0 8
idVendor 0x138a Validity Sensors, Inc.
idProduct 0x0018 Fingerprint scanner
bcdDevice 0.78
iManufacturer 0
iProduct 0
iSerial 1
bNumConfigurations 1
Configuration Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 2
wTotalLength 46
bNumInterfaces 1
bConfigurationValue 1
iConfiguration 0
bmAttributes 0xa0
(Bus Powered)
Remote Wakeup
MaxPower 100mA
Interface Descriptor:
bLength 9
bDescriptorType 4
bInterfaceNumber 0
bAlternateSetting 0
bNumEndpoints 4
bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class
bInterfaceSubClass 0
bInterfaceProtocol 0
iInterface 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x01 EP 1 OUT
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x82 EP 2 IN
bmAttributes 2
Transfer Type Bulk
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0040 1x 64 bytes
bInterval 0
Endpoint Descriptor:
bLength 7
bDescriptorType 5
bEndpointAddress 0x83 EP 3 IN
bmAttributes 3
Transfer Type Interrupt
Synch Type None
Usage Type Data
wMaxPacketSize 0x0008 1x 8 bytes
bInterval 4
I have searched high and low but I cannot get this to work. All questions related to 138a:0018 are either unanswered or old. Any help guys?
Ok, so after a lot of hair pulling and googling, I finally got my fingerprint sensor to work:
EDIT (03/01/2015): Building the package from source. You might need to set up a build environment first. Make sure that you have packages $sudo apt-get install autoreconf libusb libusb-dev libnss3 libgdk-pixbuf2 git libtool:
Script for auto build and install (written by me and shared from my Dropbox). cd to wherever you downloaded the script to and and run it with superuser:
$ chmod +x install.sh
$ sudo ./install.sh
And voila. Go to user accounts, and you'll see a fingerprint login option.
If you're using ecryptfs (What is this?) for /home, you will encounter this issue at login. Fix.
EDIT (08/10/2014): You can also build your own driver by compiling libfprint patched with 138a:0018 and 138a:0017 drivers (see 03/01/2014). Their licenses apply, obviously.
I don't know for sure, but you can probably build this on a 32-bit system as well.
EDIT (02/10/2014): After switching to Arch Linux, I recently found out that this driver (libfprint-vfs5011-git) is present in AUR. You can download the updated version from AUR for this package (I'll update this answer soon to include instructions as well). EDIT: Added instructions, see 03/01/2014.
EDIT (13/09/2014): After recent updates to fprint, the fingerprint recognition is pretty awesome :P
Pre-built. (See the 03/01/2014 edit for the latest git version):
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Open up a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and add the PPA for
fprintd.$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fingerprint/fprint -
Update your installation.
$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -
Get the required packages.
$ sudo apt-get install fprintd libpam-fprintd Download the driver for the fingerprint scanner (shared via my Dropbox). Add a comment if the download is not working. See the latest edit (02/10/2014) for a repository version.
cdto wherever you downloaded the driver to.-
Install the driver.
$ sudo dpkg -i fprint-vfs5011_0-1_amd64.deb
I had the same issue and this worked for me:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fingerprint/fingerprint-gui
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libbsapi policykit-1-fingerprint-gui fingerprint-gui
You have to log out of your session and log back in afterwards.
Supported readers (run command lsusb to find out the ID of your reader)
045e:00bb 08ff:1683 08ff:2580 08ff:268d 147e:2020
045e:00bc 08ff:1684 08ff:2660 08ff:268e 147e:3001
045e:00bd 08ff:1685 08ff:2680 08ff:268f 1c7a:0603
045e:00ca 08ff:1686 08ff:2681 08ff:2691
0483:2015 08ff:1687 08ff:2682 08ff:2810
0483:2016 08ff:1688 08ff:2683 08ff:5501
05ba:0007 08ff:1689 08ff:2684 08ff:5731
05ba:0008 08ff:168a 08ff:2685 138a:0001
05ba:000a 08ff:168b 08ff:2686 138a:0005
061a:0110 08ff:168c 08ff:2687 138a:0008
08ff:1600 08ff:168d 08ff:2688 138a:0011
08ff:1660 08ff:168e 08ff:2689 138a:0017
08ff:1680 08ff:168f 08ff:268a 138a:0018
08ff:1681 08ff:2500 08ff:268b 147e:1000
08ff:1682 08ff:2550 08ff:268c 147e:2016
and
0483:2015 147e:1003 147e:3000
0483:2016 147e:2015 147e:3001
147e:1000 147e:2016 147e:5002
147e:1001 147e:2020 147e:5003
147e:1002
from “Fingerprint readers integration” team on launchpad