On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 01:11:15AM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > > Have you grepped that USB ID from the source to confirm it's in there? > > Despite what the website says, if the USB ID isn't in there, then it > > won't get loaded. Also, it looks like you're installing the module > > from the build tree instead of from the usual > > /lib/modules/... location, maybe your depmod hasn't picked it up. > > Well, I am still fairly new to linux, so if you please help me a bit > more: no problem. > How can i grep that USB ID from the source? grep is a tool that allows you to search through files looking for particular strings and if it finds those strings, it will display the lines it found the string in. In your case I would: cd /path/to/source/directory grep -r 'USBID' . the first command is to change you to the source directory for the upstream package you are using. This is the tarball you downloaded from the gspca website. it will be a directory called gspca-something-or-other. in the second command, you should replace USBID with the actual usb id reported for the device. it will look through all the files in the present directory (that's what '.' means) and all the subdirectories (that what '-r' means) looking for USBID. It will display the lines that contain USBID. If it doesn't find USBID, then that driver won't work because it won't be able to identify the camera. > How can i install install the module from the usual /lib/.... the usual method for doing this is very simple. first, install the kernel headers for your system: aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` then download the upstream tarball from the website and unpack it tar -xzvf name-of-tarball.tar.gz this will make a directory called name-of-tarball, change to it: cd name-of-tarball configure the package (may not be necessary): ./configure build the package: make install the package (do this as root): make install and that should do it. since this is a module you're building, its usually a good idea to then run depmod which will run through all the modules and build a dependency tree so that you can get things to work properly. Finally, plug the camera in and look at /var/log/syslog to see what happens. > Sorry, but with my knowledge, I am feeling like I am reading ancient Greek!!! Keep at it, you'll get it. The effort is worth it as the reward is a computer that *you* control! A
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