Re: install driver for 3com homeconnect webcam

Ben Bacarisse wrote:

newbie <noone@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

I'm trying to get my 3com homeconnect usb webcam to work in linux. I am
using backtrack 3 final. I downloaded vicam-patch.gz which extracted to
vicam_patch but that's all, there was no readme or anything else. I don't
know where I should copy this file to so the webcam will work. Thanks for
any pointers.

Such a patch is usually applied to a kernel source and then you
re-build the kernel. That can seem daunting at first, but I would be
surprised if you need to do it. The only vicam-patch I can find is
from 2002 and is for Linux 2.4.20. That's quite old now. Are you
really running a system that old?

Newer kernels seem to have support for this camera built in (the
module is called "vicam"), so I would start by asking what version of
Linux you are running and what you have done so far to try to get the
webcam working?

version = backtrack 3 final. I can't find a webcam viewer anywhere in this
OS. I tried downloading and installing gcam but I can't get it to work. I
also managed to install skype but when I try to look at the webcam preview
in that the skype program just suddenly closes. The preview button does
ay 'vicam' so I assume the OS has the driver in some way.
.