Debian 12 not recognizing fingerprint reader

[QRP]

For my own peculiar reasons I changed from Ubuntu to Debian and I have found that the fingerprint options are not in Settings as they are in Ubuntu.
Is there a way to enable the fingerprint reader on my FW using Debian?

Host: Laptop AB
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64
DE: GNOME 43.4
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-10-amd64
Shell: bash 5.2.15
WM: Mutter
CPU: 11th Gen Intel i7-1165G7 (8) @ 4.7GHz
GPU: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics]
GPU Driver: i915
Memory: 5.51GiB / 15.41GiB (35%)
Disk (/): 9.0G / 227G (5%)

[Nosh]

I am not an expert, but have you tried the below:

Install packages:
apt install fprintd libpam-fprintd

Fingerprints can be added by running fprintd-enroll CLI command in a terminal or by using GNOME’s Settings GUI:

fprintd-enroll

Complete instructions in the link below:

https://wiki.debian.org/SecurityManagement/fingerprint%20authentication

Please do let me know how you go because I also intend to run Debian 12 as it is a great distro once I get my framework.

[QRP]

Nosh, I switched to Mint which is working well for me, however I have not discovered how to enable the FPR. I tried your commands but Mint is not ready for this. Should I go back to Debian I will keep your comments at the ready. Thanks.

[Nosh]

@QRP unfortunately as I dont have the hardware yet I cannot try this myself.
I know official support is for Ubuntu & Fedora, because they provide most polish as far as out of the box functionality is concerned.

However just for fun I tried Debian 12 on a old Celeron laptop with 2GB of ram and I was surprised how polished it is. I even got fractional scaling working on it.

The FPR instructions are for Debian so they should work, I believe some tinkering is required.

[Nosh]

There is a huge thread here you may have to dig into it, but it seems like it is a bit of a hit and a miss:

[TRACKING] Fingerprint scanner compatibility with linux (ubuntu, fedora, etc)

Hi there, I’m just wondering if the fingerprint scanner has been tested to be compatible with linux. Fingerprint scanners have historically had hit-or-miss compatibility on linux due to a lack of drivers, and was wondering if the fingerprint scanner has been tested.

[Samuel_Llano]

I can confirm that fingerprint scanning works well on Debian 12 by following the instructions on the Debian Wiki, as suggested above. For the last step use “sudo pam-auth-update”. Without the “sudo” the command is not recognised

[Melvin_Orellana]

I followed the instructions but there is no fingerprint option to activate in the pam configuration. I’ve tried reinstalling fprintd many times, I can enroll the fingerprint and verify it but it still does not show in the pam configuration