How to I get the fingerprint reader to work on a HP ProBook 4530?

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Published on 2012-07-22T22:35:08Z Indexed on 2012/12/17 17:14 UTC
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My laptop (HP ProBook 4530) has a fingerprint device but ubuntu 12.04 didn't configure it automatically.

In an effort to get it to work I installed Fingerprint-GUI. It tells me "no device detected". I checked that it is enabled in the BIOS settings. I already tried the following.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fingerprint/fingerprint-gui
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libbsapi policykit-1-fingerprint-gui fingerprint-gui

and

sudo apt-get install fprint-demo libfprint-dev libfprint0 libpam-fprint aes2501-wy

I tried adding Additional drivers

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