Hi, I had similar problem, but under debian. Nevertheless the way described on thinkwiki.org (http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_the_fingerprint_reader) was working for the first time even on 64bit system.
Lukas 2008/8/1, Stefan G. Weichinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad R61 these days, nearly everything runs fine > under gentoo, I am very happy so far. > > The only feature missing is the fingerprint reader, my googling lead me > to the fact that the reader is not supported by the thinkfinger-pkg > because it's a TouchStrip reader. > > A howto is here: > > http://knowledge76.com/index.php/Fingerprint_Reader_Installation > > > Does anyone know if there is already some ebuild for this somewhere? > Maybe some overlay? > > I'd like to know before I start to write my own ebuild for this. > > Thanks a lot for any pointer, Stefan > >