Ubuntu 13.10 on a T440 - Wifi, Sound, Fingerprint reader and TrackPoint issues

Question

I recently got my t440 and put Ubuntu 13.10 on it and have had a few problems pop up. Hopefully someone here can help, or I will find solutions and post here as things get working again.
Wifi - I have a Thinkpad  11b/g/n 2x2 wireless card. I do not believe there are currently Linux drivers provided for this card. According to thinkwiki, the 1x2 version of the card works with real tek's rtl8192se driver; I have tried to load it with modprobe, but it does not work for this card. There might be a solution to this with ndiswrapper, but I haven't been successful. I have ordered an intel wireless card to replace this one.
 *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       version: 00
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0400000-f0403fff
Sound - The sound works when ubuntu boots, but usually crashes shortly thereafter. There are some known sound issues with 13.04 and 13.10, but I haven't been successful stopped the problem with their suggestion.
http://itsfoss.com/fix-sound-ubuntu-1304-quick-tip/
http://askubuntu.com/questions/361730/no-sounds-after-upgrade
Fingerprint reader - All previous thinkpads had AuthenTec fingerprint readers; this generation ships with Validity readers. Info on thinkwiki is describes installing fprint, but fprint does not recognize the validity reader. This post looks promising.
http://www.tuxtrix.com/2012/05/how-to-activate-validity-fingerprint.html
TrackPoint - The trackpoint pointer works fine, but lenovo did away with the physical left/middle/right click buttons. The top on the touchpad can be pressed (in windows) for left/middle/right click, but I haven't gotten this functionality enabled in Ubuntu yet. Might be able to fix this in the xorg.conf file
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Synaptics_TouchPad_driver_for_X

Answer 1

Fingerprint reader- above links do not resolve the problem. fprintd and frprint-demo do not recognize the Validity fingerprint sensor. My issues are the same as described in this post.
Output from lsusb
benjib0t@benjib0t-ThinkPad-T440:~/Downloads/fprint_vfs5011$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:8000 Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04f2:b39a Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0bda:8761 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 138a:0017 Validity Sensors, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
The device id is 138a:0017. In this fedora forum, a user successfuly gets a 138a:0018 to work.
1) Clone and compile this git repo: https://github.com/maffmeier/fprint_vfs5011.git
git clone https://github.com/maffmeier/fprint_vfs5011.git
cd fprint_vfs5011
sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0-dev libnss3-dev libglib2.0-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev
./configure
make
sudo make install
 2) This has installed  libprint is /usr/local/lib, but fprintd still does not recognize the device
3) I created a symlink in /usr/lib to the libfprint I compiled, in hopes that fprintd would pick it up, but to no avail
benjib0t@benjib0t-ThinkPad-T440:/usr/lib$ sudo fprintd
Launching FprintObject
** Message: D-Bus service launched with name: net.reactivated.Fprint
** Message: entering main loop
** Message: No devices in use, exit
 Maybe I'll try compiling libfprint too...