AVI camera driver question

[steven01]

Hello everyone. I bought a 300K pixel webcam recently and it's time to start using it with Puppy 2.00. I've searched on Google for Linux AVI drivers and found various possibilities. However, I was wondering if anyone has found an AVI driver that works well with Puppy 2.00. Also, when I have a driver file should I use

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modprobe [driver filename]

to install it? Thanks.

Steven.

[Lobster]

Try and persuade Nickbiker to find some time to recompile his wonderful wizard for the 2.6 kernel (as used in the 2.xx series of Puppy)
If you are using 1.09 or earlier of Puppy his webcam wizard may well work. He got my camera working under the 1.xx series of Puppy. His code incidentally is excellent.
http://www.moyo.me.uk/pupplinux/

Someone mentioned to me a network webcam that you plug directly into a network - it has a network card built in and needs no computer - anyone know about/use this?

[steven01]

Hello again. I've installed an application called "wwwcam" to use with my webcam. At the moment it is reporting

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Cannot open /dev/video

when run. So I looked around a bit and found the usbvideo module in /lib/modules/2.6.16.7.... and tried to insert it like this:

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modprobe usbvideo

The result (in dmesg) is:

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usbvideo: Unknown symbol v41_compat_ioct132
usbvideo: Unknown symbol video_devdata
usbvideo: Unknown symbol video_unregister_device
usbvideo: Unknown symbol video_register_device
usbvideo: Unknown symbol video_usercopy

Does anyone know

1. How I can fix this problem?
2. Am I trying to insert the right kind of driver anyway.

Sorry, but I'm not sure what chip set the camera uses . Any help would be appriciated. Thanks.

Steven.

[fluxit]

What does usbview show for the camera?