I have mine setup, however it is using pam_thinkfinger instead.

Its an STMicroelectronics with:
idVendor           0x0483
idProduct          0x2016

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Ramon Casha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> AuthenTec AES2501 Fingerprint Sensor in a Compaq 6710b laptop.
>
> I did try searching and I couldn't find any solution to this problem, which
> seems to occur quite a bit. I was hoping someone actually had one set up. I
> did see that thread that SeanCarl identified, but nothing useful there.
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> Ramon Casha
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> 2008/11/17 SeanCarl Grech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> could be helpful: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4091363
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>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:59 PM, James Attard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
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>>> Can you give us more details about your fingerprint sensor? Unfortunately
>>> mine is still not supported.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Ramon Casha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I got me a new laptop at work, and it's got a fingerprint device for
>>>> logging on and things like that. I installed pam_fprint and it almost 
>>>> works.
>>>> Well actually it does work, but only the first time. Subsequent logins,
>>>> sudo's and gksudo's fail. On the command line I get the following error:
>>>>
>>>> aes2501:error [dev_init] could not claim interface 0
>>>> fp:error [fp_dev_open] device initialisation failed, driver=aes2501
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas? If you have a fingerthing on your laptop, did you use the
>>>> fprint interface?
>>>>
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>>>> Ramon Casha
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