[fprint] Support for 138a:0090 (Validity Sensors Inc.) fingerprint reader

Vasily Khoruzhick anarsoul at gmail.com
Wed Jul 6 22:21:56 UTC 2016


On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Rupanshu Ganvir
<rupanshu.ganvir at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> That's a bummer. Is this the case with 138a:0050 as well?

This device isn't supported either.

>
> --
> Rupanshu
>
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 at 17:01 Vasily Khoruzhick <anarsoul at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> It's not supported at the moment. This device uses encryption, so it's
>> impossible to reverse engineer its protocol.
>>
>> I tried to contact Synaptics but got no response.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Vasily
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 9:34 AM, Rupanshu Ganvir
>> <rupanshu.ganvir at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I recently bought a Thinkpad X1 Carbon which has the fingerprint reader
>> > mentioned above. Could someone help me out - if the above is supported
>> > and
>> > if so, what steps should I follow?
>> >
>> > Output of lsusb:
>> > Bus 001 Device 004: ID 138a:0090 Validity Sensors, Inc.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Rupanshu
>> >
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