Scott,

I don't think I was missing your point.  Lenovo only sell T500 with
Windows so they only care about Windows drivers.  AuthenTec will only do
something if it makes a profit and the only operating system that people
can get on their T500 machines in the shops is Windows, so only Windows
matters to them.  Thus no-one with any financial clout is going to care,
except Canonical, who I thought had a policy of all hardware working
under Ubuntu out of the box.  Clearly this is not the case for the T500.
So unless a big corporate suddenly decides it has to fund Canonical to
have the driver, Canonical will have to fund the project internally or
it will never happen.  I am guessing from the apparent lack of official
Canonical corporate interest in this bug, the answer is this bit of
hardware will not now ever work in Ubuntu and definitely never in
Debian.  Sad, but I have learnt to live with this.

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[08ff:2810] AuthenTec, Inc. AES2810 fingerprint reader not recognized after 
upgrading to  Ubuntu 10.10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/657031
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