The sensor comes with the machine. I have been trying to make it work with SL. That's okay if there is no driver for SL.
Thank you very much for your help. > On 16 Feb 2014, at 7:25 am, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:36 PM, n00b 101 <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have installed Scientific Linux release 6.5 (Carbon) on a Dell Latitude >> E6520 and would like to get the fingerprint sensor to work. Information >> from lsusb command is > > Why, exactly, do you want it? > > Given the demonstrably poor return-on-investment of finigerprint > security, and the ease of defeating most fingerprint scanners with > bkack&white printouts of copied fingerprints, they're not the > biometric marvel claimed by the vendors of such technology. Are you > trying to simply scan fingerprints for anlysiis, in which case a > Windows VM running under Xen or KVM or VirtualBox should work well? Or > do you actually need it for Linux user authentication? > >> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0a5c:5801 Broadcom Corp. BCM5880 Secure Applications >> Processor with fingerprint swipe sensor >> >> I searched a linux driver for BCM5880 for three days and the conclusion is >> that BCM5880 Fingerprint Sensor currently has no linux driver. I just want >> to know if I am on the right track. >> >> Thanks, >> n00b >>
