So I’m shopping for a fingerprint reader to use on Linux desktop and found this list of fprint supported devices. The problem is that USB ID is not exactly the kind of information they advertise in marketplaces or product information pages, so I can never know whether the product I’m looking at is going to be detected at all.
I looked for reviews on Amazon of many candidates, but almost every review that mentions Linux support is a negative, so I feel that my odds here are not great.
Have you tried any device that worked with any distro, preferably out of the box?
Are you looking for a desktop? HP and thinkpads have always worked out of the box for me.
Can you please provide more info about your setup? I have an Ubuntu thinkpad and I have failed so far to use the fingerprint scanner
Vanilla ubuntu? It just worked out of the box, if you go to users in gnome, there should be fingerprint login options. If it’s not being detcted on a thinkpad, I would make sure it isn’t turned off in bios.