How to install drivers for an unsupported webcam

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: How to install drivers for an unsupported webcam
started by: gleitao

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Posted by gleitao on July 12 2005,06:53

Hello everyone.

I have been trying to install Trust 120 Spacecam on DSL, but this webcam is unsupported on Linux. i found 2 driver modules, NW802 and spca5xx, but when I try to compile and install it gives loads of "cannot find file or directory" errors, and exits with error 1.

Can anyone tell me which are the steps that i need to perform in order to be able to install the webcam?

Does DSL come with v4l?
How to make dependencies?
Which modules to load?

Sorry for the amount of questions, and thank's in advance, it's just that i'm starting to work with Linux, so i'm still learning, and have no idea what i'm doing

Best regards.

gleitao

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