Hi,

I recently got a new lappy from my employer. It is a Fujitsu Lifebook E series. I cannot complain about hardware recognition on openSUSE 10.3: most of the hardware got recognized without problems. The only thing I am having trouble with is the fingerprint reader: a Authentec AES2501.

After finishing installation, SuSE detected the presence of a fingerprint reader and presented a configuration dialog. The problem is that I did not know the vendor and model and I cancelled configuration. I then rebooted to windows to take a look for the needed information. That's where I found out it is a Authentec AES2501.

Yesterday, after finishing installing/upgrading some packages, I decided to try to configure it. I went into YaST's hardware section for the fingerprint reader/scanner configuration tool and now YaST says it couldn't find any fingerprint reader.

Do you know how to make suse recognize it again?
I did some googling and I found out there is some driver for that very same model: aes2501. Do I need to install it or should YaST take care of that?

Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks.