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Hello everyone,
first of all hope this is the right place for the post, I'm working on a L460 but the issue should be the same for all the Thinkpad using the new fingerprint scanner with the validity driver.
It's been almost a week I'm trying to activate the fingerprint reader at power-on on my L460 laptop with no success, I can only have fingerprint at Windows log-on but then I can't find how to activate it for power on and hd password.

Here is what I did so far, installed the driver provided in the support page for my laptop, Validity Fingerprint Common Driver v. 4.5.327, but there I can only register my fingerprints and automatically Windows log-on gets activated, but it doesn't give any further option and there is no way to activate power on and hd password, or I'm missing something??

The manual about the fingerprint reader says:

"To enable fingerprint authentication, enroll your fingerprints first. During the enrollment, the fingerprints are associated with the Windows password automatically" And this works flawlessly

Then it adds:
"To associate your fingerprints with your power-on password and hard disk password, manually create a connection" BUT HOW?????

I've also tried to install some other lenovo software like Fingerprint Manager both standard and Pro version, but they can't connect to the fingerprint reader and give an error message. Needless to say that in the bios there is nothing about the fingerprint reader other than the disable option.

I'm lost, if anybody has any suggestion I would really appreciate. By the way, if the solution should use Ubuntu instead of Windows it would be even better, but I have already searched and I'm afraid for this there is no way.


Many thanks in advance to everyone for your help
Marco

Welcome to the Forum.
You most likely have W10, where a lot of stuff doesn't work any longer...
I suggest you install the latest Lenovo 4.5.507 drivers: http://support.lenovo.com/us/en/downloads/ds103635

To answer your "new connection" quest: see this: http://www.manualslib.com/manual/913926 ... =83#manual

Hi RealBlackStuff,
many thanks for the welcome and the suggestions, to tell the true I use Ubuntu as a main OS, but I also have a W8.1 partition for things that don't love linux like PDF, Garmin updater and unfortunately even all the thinkpad stuff.

So the driver is already updated to the latest version in Win, very interesting the page of the manual but unfortunately is not the model of fingerprint reader provided with my L460 (no LED indicator and incompatible with Fingerprint Manager Pro)

What is weird is that it start with the very same words, but on the contrary of the L460 manual afterwards it explains what is this connection, completely missing in my manual. In any case the procedure doesn't work for me, probably you first need to use Fingerprint Manager Pro, that I can't, to activate Predesktop Authentication.

I'm starting to think that what I want is not supported any more with the new fingerprint scanner on my L460, but then why its manual says to create this connection for PO and HD passwords without explaining how? A lazy writer using too much copy paste??

In any case hope someone will be able to help, even because it's one of the reasons, although not the only one, I have chosen to spend some 800 eur for a laptop instead of the many you can find around for half the cost.