Distributions released before Ubuntu Trusty and Debian Wheezy are not supported. Afterwards I cannot scan another fingerprint until I restart my laptop as a 'scan is already in progress'. I'm considering opening up the laptop and physically disconnecting the device. Step 2 -Installing fPrint Use following commands to install fPrint. This code is written for the SPI interface. This can be fixed by blacklisting power management of the USB3. Do a search on the ID 06cb:00bd and it will take you to libfprint, among other things. One sequence of events seems to be something like: After a while, I am able to SSH into the machine again. Pin Under Ubuntu there is no driver support for usb-device-138a-0091 (fingerprint scanner) which leads to battery drain.
