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Validity Sensors Inc Vfs301 Fingerprint Reader Software
Validity Sensors Inc Vfs301 Fingerprint Reader Access Control

Prakhar@pr3d4tOr:$ lsusb -s 001:003 -v Bus 001 Device 003: ID 138a:0018 Validity Sensors, Inc. Fingerprint scanner Couldn't open device, some information will be missing Device Descriptor: bLength 18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.10 bDeviceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bDeviceSubClass 17 bDeviceProtocol 255 bMaxPacketSize0 8 idVendor 0x138a. Validity Fingerprint Common Driver for Windows 10 (32-bit, 64-bit) - Desktops, Laptops and Workstations. Hardware IDs USB VID138A or USB vendor ID (VID) 138A recognizes Validity Sensors, Inc. As the USB vendor and manufacturer of the device or devices listed below. USB Vendor ID (VID), Device ID (PID) and SUBSYS ID are used to recognize the manufacturer and model of a devices. I did whatever is currently available on online forums to make fingerprint reader work again but all was in vain. Finally had to do CLEAN windows 10 install and after that my very old VFS301 sensor started working like charm with driver from windows updateprovided by microsoft. Since a lot of sources claim that 138a:0097 variety of Validity fingerprint sensors used for ThinkPads act strangely when enrolling under something that is not Windows, at this point, I'd just use VirtualBox and Windows 10 to enroll my fingerprints for the next 10 years and forget about this. If someone has a working solution which doesn't.

2015-09-18 20:15 by Thorben Bürgel

Validity Sensors Inc Vfs301 Fingerprint Reader

Since I spent a bigger amount of time reasarching on how to make the Validity fingerprint reader (VFS451) on my HP ProBook 4520s working together with Windows 10 and its 'Hello' login function, I want to share my solution. Normally, I am only used to fiddle around with device drivers on Linux, but this time Microsoft left its customers without support.

Validity Sensor Driver

I have read several forum and blog post about fingerprint reader issues on Windows 10, but nothing seemed to work. I tried to uninstall and reinstall the driver in the device manager, but without success. I also found different driver version on the internet and tried them. Some seemed to work for one scan, but failed on the second. Thus, I assume that with these drivers both scans didn't match, even the scan result was usable.
However, finally I found a driver that is working. The proper version is: 4.4.234.00.
Windows Hello could finally register my fingerprints and the login is working without problems.

Validity Sensors Inc Vfs301 Fingerprint Reader Software

You can find this drivers on the HP servers http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp58501-59000/sp58869.exe
After downloading and unpacking the driver, you can just manually install it in the device driver.
How you can do this, you can find here.

Validity Sensors Inc Vfs301 Fingerprint Reader Access Control

I hope this might help other people as well. If you have a question, you can write me.