#VALIDITY FINGERPRINT SENSOR DRIVER LINUX DRIVER#

#VALIDITY FINGERPRINT SENSOR DRIVER LINUX DRIVER#

Step 1: Go to this official Lenovo driver download page and obtain the driver.

If it displays something else (a generic term like вЂfingerprint sensorвЂ™) or does not even have a вЂBiometric devicesвЂ™ section, then please start off with Step 1 for properly installing & configuring it. If under вЂBiometric devicesвЂ™ it says вЂSynaptic FP Sensor (WBF) (PID=0011) as shown below, then you can jump to вЂ Step 2вЂ¦вЂ™ directly. To verifyВ that, press the вЂWindows keyвЂ™ + вЂrвЂ™, this will open up the вЂRunвЂ™ dialog-box, and then enter the below command, which in turn will open-up the вЂDevice ManagerвЂ™: Because I have read some claiming that Windows 8.1 being able to recognize it, after anВ update. The installation is very simple & easy, and I have (as usual), writtenВ it down, step by step.Д«efore we begin, let us make sure that Windows 8.1 has not actually recognized the Validity fingerprint sensorВ (5011), just to make sure. So I decided to write a вЂhow to вЂ article, hoping that someone having the same issue would find it quite liberating рџ™‚. As a result, I found a driver for it through LenovoвЂ™s website, that supportsВ Windows 8.1 (32/64 bit). Luckily though,В this fingerprint sensor is somewhat popular and various other manufacturers also include it in some of their products.

Now Dell on their website does provide us with a driver for вЂWindows 8вЂ¦вЂ™ however, while trying to install, it gave me an error (basically saying that it does not support Windows 8/8.1) and quit. But I do put my laptop to sleep quite often, and since having to re-type the password every time I turn it ON is quite a burden, I decided to find a way to make it work in Windows 8.1. I actually never quite used it that much (even in Windows 7 that came pre-installed), and as a result, was only aware this issue very recently. Validity Fingerprint Sensor 5011 that came with my Dell Vostro V131, stopped working after I switchedВ to Windows 8.1.

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