Hi all.
Just wanted to share my experience trying to use a webcam and usb pendrives on my nslu2 running Kamikaze 8.09. I've been searching forums all over the weekend with no luck. Hope this will be useful and not a repost...

The webcam runs on my linux PC smoothly, with gspca driver.

I started from a bare kamikaze install, just base packages. First I installed USB support to read pendrives: the packages are...
kmod-usb2 depends on kmod-usb-core
and
kmod-usb-storage depends on kmod-scsi-core

Then, install these packages to be able to mount FAT32 filesystems:
kmod-fs-vfat kmod-nls-base kmod-nls-cp437 kmod-nls-iso8859-1
Reboot and now you can mount usb filesystems via...

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt

The tricky part was the webcam. The webcam, when working, should create a /dev/video0 node to interact with.
These packages will provide support for webcam driver and V4L (video for linux) interface.
kmod-video-gspca kmod-video-core
Now the packages for the command line program that can read the webcam:
spcacat libpthread
You plug the camera and... no device is created. Do not try to make it yourself (mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0): it won't work at all.

Well, the answer is that the nslu2 has EHCI USB 2.0 ports, provided by kmod-usb2. BUT, the webcam is USB 1.1 !! USB 1.1 devices need OHCI driver, and it's provided by another package, kmod-usb-ohci . I think it should be required as a dependency to install kmod-video-gspca, but it is not.
Install it, reboot, and then webcam appears in dmesg and creates /dev/video0 EASILY.

Now capture a single picture:

spcacat -d /dev/video0 -f jpg -s 352x288 -N 1 -o

..and that's all

(Last edited by xeper on 23 Feb 2009, 23:31)

Nice

Which Webcam are you using?

The webcam is detected as

Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04fc:0561 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd Flexcam 100
gspca: USB GSPCA camera found.(SPCA561A)
gspca: [spca5xx_probe:4275] Camera type S561
gspca: [spca5xx_getcapability:1249] maxw 352 maxh 288 minw 160 minh 120
usbcore: registered new interface driver gspca
gspca: gspca driver 01.00.20 registered

a really cheap one.

(Last edited by xeper on 24 Feb 2009, 21:20)

Just wondering - why did you decide to use vfat? There is a tutorial for setting ext2/ext3 on a USB drive (ignore the boot part - everything else is up to date).

Hello,

I have some problem installing my webcam.
it is a chicony twinkle dc-2110
I opened the plastic, and inside it is a sn9c101 chip.
I wonder if i choosed the right kmod-video-???
I tryed to install many as i found associations.

example: kmod-video-gspca-sonixb
kmod-video-gspca-sonixj
kmod-video-gspca-sn9c102
kmod-video-gspca-ov511

and of course

kmod-video-gspca-core

and it is not getting any /dev/video

please help.

what driver should i use?

Thanks,
Seb

What’s the USB device ID? That determines which driver you need.

e.g.: 17ef:4807

Alternatively, plug it into a recent Linux PC and run "lsmod | grep spca"

(Last edited by towolf on 13 Apr 2012, 18:08)

i did not find any driver for that webcam inside opkg repository.
i found driver sources but i wonder how can i get a opkg driver from C language sources??!! any ideea?

fortunately i got another webcam which accepted a driver listed in opkg repository.
and it works with new wecam.

brgds,
seb

What is the USB device ID?

hello towolf,
now i'm trying to install a webcam with: 093A:2468
on mxhaard.fr it appears it uses pac207.
i downloaded gspca ipk for pac207 along with the ones in the first post but no /dev/video0 yet. DAMN!!!
what can i do about this?

Best regards,
Seb

does dmesg say anything interesting when you plug the camera?