How to add fingerprint reader support to your Ubuntu installation (yes, it does work):
- Add fingerprint-gui ppa to your sources:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fingerprint/fingerprint-gui
$ sudo apt-get update
- Install fingerprint-gui
$ sudo apt-get install fingerprint-gui
- Install UPEK library libbsapi
$ sudo apt-get install libbsapi
- Log out and back in
- Play with settings in System > Preferences > Fingerprint GUI
For more and more detailed information, see https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fingerprint-gui.