I have an x280 with a fingerprint reader.It was initially installed with Windows 10. The fingerprint was working perfectly until I installed ubunut 18.04. lsusb doesn't show any fingerprint device. I have checked that it is enabled in the bios. Any help will be much appreciated.

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So far, no working solution exists. - The lsusb should show ID 06cb:009a Synaptics, Inc. which is the fingerprint reader. - You can follow this Github issue that explains the problem : No other project managed to go as far as this.

there is now a solution.
uunicorn /python-validity worked on it for a long time and thanks to them now ID 06cb:009a Synaptics, Inc. is usable in Ubuntu (I tested with Ubuntu 20.04)

Basically follow these commands (taken directly from their github):

$ sudo apt remove fprintd
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:uunicorn/open-fprintd
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt install open-fprintd fprintd-clients python3-validity
...wait a bit...
$ fprintd-enroll

If you run into errors (I didn't) you can go to their github. They have a list of solutions for possible errors

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