Since the driver required is not in the mainline kernel and the driver/libfprint require a much newer version of libusb (v 0.9 or 1.0beta) than what is in Intrepid (v 0.1), I would be extremely surprised if 2.6.27 fixed this.
Since the driver required is not in the mainline kernel and the driver/libfprint require a much newer version of libusb (v 0.9 or 1.0beta) than what is in Intrepid (v 0.1), I would be extremely surprised if 2.6.27 fixed this.