Fujitsu-Siemens Celsius H250: Fingerprint Troubles

[BlackOtton]

Hey everyone!

 

I recently got myself a Fujitsu-Siemens Celsius H250. I got it mostly for 2000s gaming, as well as to run older software without VM hassle. The machine itself is great; with a Core 2 Duo and Quadro FX 570M, it performs really well, even by today's standards.

 However, I'm facing two problems with drivers. First, the Fujitsu drivers website itself. Most drivers there either don't work, work partially, or don't exist. For example, Bluetooth drivers are nowhere to be found. WLAN drivers for the Atheros card are downloadable and installable, but they don't connect to any wireless network (I found drivers that do work). However, the biggest problems were the Bluetooth and fingerprint software. I found a Bluetooth driver from a Toshiba Tecra; it works, detects the hardware, but when discovering devices, I see a blank page or a message that the Discovery Service couldn't start. Most important is the fingerprint software. I searched everywhere and tried installing everything, but it doesn't work. Drivers from the Fujitsu website install and detect the fingerprint sensor, but I can't find software to make it work. I think I need AuthenTec True Suite software, but I can't find it. I tried Lenovo software; it detects that I'm not using Lenovo hardware and refuses to start. I tried an older version supposedly compatible with Windows 7 x64, but it refuses to start on my Vista Ultimate x64. The AuthenTec website is gone, and Internet Archive installers also require Windows 7 x64.

 

So, I have three questions:

 

1. Is there a website where I can normally find drivers for this hardware?

2. Can I find a Bluetooth driver with Toshiba branding that would allow me to use a Bluetooth device normally? (Vista includes its own Bluetooth control panel, so that might be the easiest solution.)

 

3. Can someone direct me to the Authentec TrueSuite software, or any other software that would allow me to use the fingerprint sensor? I know I could ignore it, but I want to get as close as possible to a stock experience.

 

Thank you for any help in advance!

[Tripredacus]

Helpful hint in regards to notebook drivers, from back then or even to today. Nothing is really proprietary when it comes to the stuff inside of notebooks. So usually if I can't find a driver for a particular model from the manufacturer's website, I will find out what a relevant cross-over model from another manufacturer is and look on their website. A real world example is that sometimes I have to build an image for a Clevo notebook before the drivers get put on Clevo's site or the ODM's site, but MSI and Asus sell notebooks that contain the same hardware so I will look on their sites for drivers. 

For the drivers you are missing, if you can post the hardware IDs of the devices in device manager (Just the VEN_/DEV_/SUBSYS lines) then others may be able to know where to find the stuff you need.

[BlackOtton]

So here's the Bluetooth ID:

USB\VID_0C24&PID_000F&REV_1915
when searching this ID, all I have is Toshiba drivers. Which installs correctly and detects BT hardware, but when trying to discover any Bluetooth devices I either get "Discovery service couldn't start" error (When using Toshiba's utility), or just a blank page with no devices on it (that's when using Vista's built-in tool).

And here's device ID for Fingerprint sensor:

 USB\VID_08FF&PID_2580&REV_0623
there's a ton of available drivers online for it. They do work (in the sense that the driver does detect the sensor and shows up as installed in device manager), but I cannot find a working software for it. I managed to install Lenovo Fingerprint software, which actually half-works. I can successfully enroll my fingerprint (as shown on the first image), and even enable fingerprint logon instead of Windows one (as shown on the second image), but that's about it. Nothing shows up on the logon screen, and simply swiping a finger through the sensor doesn't to anything. I also tried ThinkVantage software, but this one doesn't even recognize my Fingerprint sensor hardware and refuses to install it's own driver for it.