I had a similar problem with my plug and play webcam, i managed to fix this issue when i referred to the following link: <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam</a> Hope it can help, elie <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Jocelyn <<a href="mailto:jhabib@gmail.com">jhabib@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> can you check please the logs when ever you insert it ? use dmesg <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 11:40 PM, rabih mansour <<a href="mailto:m-ack@hotmail.com" target="_blank">m-ack@hotmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> my webcam (viewtec) dosen't work .when i put it on my computer he dosen't find a new hardware "i have ubuntu 8.10 " <hr>Get news, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. <a href="http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx" target="_blank">Check it out!</a></div> -- Ubuntu-lb mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-lb@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Ubuntu-lb@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-lb" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-lb</a> </blockquote></div> -- Ubuntu-lb mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-lb@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-lb@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-lb" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-lb</a> </blockquote></div>