Re: install driver for 3com homeconnect webcam

newbie <noone@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

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.

Ah. You did say, but I did not recognise that as a Linux distribution
(there are dozens so it is hard to remember them all).

I can't find a webcam viewer anywhere in this
OS.

There may well not be. It may not even include the module to drive
the camera -- it is a specialised distro used for very specific
purposes and being small seems to be one requirement. They may have
cut a lot out.

The way to proceed it to see if the module exists. It will probably
be called vicam.ko and will be probably be in directory called
/lib/modules/2.6.*/kernel/drivers/media/video/usbvideo. You can use
find or locate to find it. If it is there, does dmesg show that it
gets loaded when you plug the camera in?

If it isn't there, you need to find out what mechanism BacktTrack
offers to add kernel modules. There may be a simple way to install it
but I don't know anything about that distro.

Do you have to use BackTrack? Other Linux distros probably make it
easier.

--
Ben.
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