Biometric authentication

[Alan Pope]

On 8 November 2010 10:37, Thiago Cavalcante <tlcavalcante at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an HP Pavilion dv5-1260br has biometric authentication. I would
> like to utlize it with Ubuntu 10.10, does anyone know if you have
> hardware support and how to install?
>

By biometric do you mean fingerprint reader? Take a look at ThinkFinger.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinkFinger

I know it's initially for ThinkPads, but I've used it on my Toshiba laptop.

Al.