Fingerprint and NFC reader on Dell Latitude E7450

Is there any solution to get the fingerprint reader and the NFC reader to work on a Dell Latitude E7450? I have been looking for a way to get them working since the E7450 2015 was released.

Fingerprint GUI 1.06 reports No Device Found.

lsusb reports:

Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0a5c:5804 Broadcom Corp. BCM5880 Secure Applications Processor with fingerprint swipe sensor

Haven't even found many questions asked about getting this to work. Either the model E7450 (2015) is not selling that well. Or the user bought it are running Windows where Dell has drivers supplied.

Or people don't care about those two features at all, but I do.. =)

If you check the fprint page for supported devices you will see that yours (0a5c:5804) is not included, so you cannot expect it to appear in the fprint-gui. It is just not supported. Page is: https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/ubuntu/fprint

The fprint project is not moving anymore, since quite some time, so you should not expect any solution, if you do not start coding (or persuade someone to do it for you).

Sorry, but no luck.

EDIT:

• The exact page of the supported devices by fprint is: https://fprint.freedesktop.org/supported-devices.html
• After 2 years, the Broadcom chips are still not supported.
• I hope someone (Joe? ) might have done some progress with that, but it is not visible in fprint's pages.
• The rest of the proposed solutions (gui) are based on the fprint. So, the outcome remains: Sorry, no luck.

This is just wrong. We should point people at resources not tell them that they're shit out of luck. I also have the same fingerprint reader (though in a Dell e7240) as does another individual who just posted to the fingerprint-gui forum 2 weeks (also with a e7240 but, again, we all share the same fingerprint reader).

This sucks. I've never done any software development for an OS or driver development but I'll look into it and see what I can find out.