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Enabling fingerprint authentication on Debian GNU/Linux

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 22:50:18 +0100

I discovered recently that the fingerprint reader on my Laptop (a Lenovo T14 AMD) was well supported on Linux (Debian Bullseye). Enabling fingerprint authentication was very simple.

Renaming network interfaces on Debian GNU/Linux

Fri, 15 Jan 2021 23:21:37 +0100

I use Debian Bullseye on a Lenovo T14 AMD. This laptop is great and works very well with a recent Linux kernel (5.10). It has 3 network interfaces: a wireless one, a wired one with a normal ethernet port, and a second wired one, with a prioprietary port, for Lenovo docks, I don’t use.

The interfaces are named wlp3s0, enp2s0f0 and enp5s0 in Debian. Yes, it turns out nowadways network interfaces are not simply named wlanX for wifi and ethX for ethernet as they conveniently used to.

About me

Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:14:39 +0200

Hi! Welcome to my tech blog!

My name is Quentin, I’m a software engineer. I work as a Staff Engineer in the Server team at Dashlane. In this blog I’m trying to write about a bit everything tech I’m interested in: security, Linux, containers, single board computers, continous integration/deployment, programming (especially in Scala and Rust), …

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