It's a touchstrip fingerprint reader UPEK TCS4 family Device build in: Vaio BZ Series Vaio SR Series Vaio Z Series Compal JLH 90 Thinkpad SL 300 & 500 Asus N10-XXXX And probably many other laptops.
It seems that device have a special firmware with a "over the wire" authentication. ** Attachment added: "lsusb-v of 14e:1000.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20230748/lsusb-v%20of%2014e%3A1000.txt -- Upek TouchStrip (147e:1000) not recognized https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301567 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs