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Re: problems with module-assistant and gspca



On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 20:48:53 -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am running etch and I have a pleomax pwc-2100 webcam by Pixart Imaging  
> Inc. The pwc-2100 doesn't run out the box. After googling a bit, I found  
> that it needs the gspca module. I installed the gspca-source and  
> followed the instructions in /usr/share/doc/gspca-source/readme.debian:
>
>   $ m-a prepare
>   $ m-a a-i gspca
>
> the process ends with errors. Looking at the log file in the  
> module-assistant log file viewer, I found the following lines which  
> report errors:
>
> scripts/Makefile.build:46: *** CFLAGS was changed in  
> "/usr/src/modules/gsp   (<-----line is out of margins here)
> make[3]: *** [_module_/usr/src/modules/gspca] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.26-bpo.1-686'
> make[2]: *** [default] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/modules/gspca'
> make[1]: *** [binary-modules] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/modules/gspca'
> make: *** [kdist-build] Error 2
>
>
> I never used module-assistant before. Any help will be very much  
> appreciated!

Which version of gspca-source do you use? It seems that you are running
a backported 2.6.26 kernel, so maybe you need to use the newer
gspca-source package from Lenny. (Unfortunately, a backported package of
the newer gspca-source version does not seem to be available.)

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