[NTLUG:Discuss] YES kernel, YES vpn, NO webcam -- and NO sound

[Jack Snodgrass]

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:37:01 -0600, Dennis Daupert wrote:

> But two issues.
> 
> 1) He couldn't find the module for my creative sound blaster live!
> card. How can I help him find that module? I did check in make
> menuconfig to be sure that module was checked (m).

don't know much about this. kudzu usually detecs cards and does the 
right thing. ;) kudzu may be RH specific. I seem to remember sndconfig
as a command that configures your sound card. Not sure if that was RH
specific too though. 
 
> 2) The webcam driver install reported a couple of errors, and
> a line in there suggested there might be some useful info in dmesg.
> If someone would be willing to make the trip to my website, I posted
> the installation dialog and dmesg output at:
> 
> http://ideastream.com/errors/
> 

there are different types of USB things. There is high speed, low speed,
and different controllers for each one. I think that the ./quickcam.sh
script is trying to load them all and getting errors on the ones that 
you already have loaded ( insmod: a module named usb-uhci already exists )
and one's you don't have (
/lib/modules/2.4.19/kernel/drivers/usb/usb-ohci.o:
init_module: No such device ) which isn't ( sometimes ) a real error but
an 'ok' error. 

So... lsmod shows:
mod_quickcam           40944   0  (unused)
videodev                5536   1  (autoclean) [mod_quickcam]
usb-uhci               21612   0  (unused)
usbcore                56416   1  [mod_quickcam usbserial usb-uhci]

and your dmesg shows:
USB Quickcam Class ff SubClass ff idVendor 46d idProduct 870
USB Quickcam camera found using: $Id: quickcam.c,v 1.111 2003/01/27 09:41:03 tuukkat Exp $
quickcam: probe of HDCS1000 sensor = 10 02 id: 08
quickcam: probe of BP100 sensor = 00 10 id: 64
quickcam: probe of VV6410 sensor = 00 10 id: 19
quickcam: probe of HDCS1020 sensor = 10 10 id: 10
quickcam: HDCS1020 sensor detected

so I think that you should be good to go..... not sure what software
uses a USB camera or what you do once you have the modules loaded, 
but you should be ready to test it out. 

jack