The sensor comes with the machine. I have been trying to make it work with SL.  That's okay if there is no driver for SL. 

Thank you very much for your help. 


> On 16 Feb 2014, at 7:25 am, Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:36 PM, n00b 101 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have installed Scientific Linux release 6.5 (Carbon) on a Dell Latitude
>> E6520 and would like to get the fingerprint sensor to work.  Information
>> from lsusb command is
> 
> Why, exactly, do you want it?
> 
> Given the demonstrably poor return-on-investment of finigerprint
> security, and the ease of defeating most fingerprint scanners with
> bkack&white printouts of copied fingerprints, they're not the
> biometric marvel claimed by the vendors of such technology. Are you
> trying to simply scan fingerprints for anlysiis, in which case a
> Windows VM running under Xen or KVM or VirtualBox should work well? Or
> do you actually need it for Linux user authentication?
> 
>> Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0a5c:5801 Broadcom Corp. BCM5880 Secure Applications
>> Processor with fingerprint swipe sensor
>> 
>> I searched a linux driver for BCM5880 for three days and the conclusion is
>> that BCM5880 Fingerprint Sensor currently has no linux driver.  I just want
>> to know if I am on the right track.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> n00b
>>