<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Hi Pete, To find the hardware type: Connect the webcam Open up a terminal Type in: lsusb and press return. This will display all usb devices connected to the system You should get a list containing lines similar to this: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Locate the camera entry and copy the ID number (from above this would be: 1d6b:0002 ) Paste into google or your preferred search and have a click around. This should get you the camera type and point you in the correct direction. Also have a look at <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam</a> for some more pointers. Michael On 30/05/12 19:08, Simon Greenwood wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:CAOX0bxnmFWL76bYVgMtOpFvsHZu5diRLHD3z2N94XiHJ_BqBww@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div class="gmail_quote">On 30 May 2012 18:30, pete smout <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:psmouty@live.com" target="_blank">psmouty@live.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im">On 30/05/12 17:59, Simon Greenwood wrote: </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im"> On 30 May 2012 17:56, pete smout <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:psmouty@live.com" target="_blank">psmouty@live.com</a> </div> <div> <div class="h5"> <mailto:<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:psmouty@live.com" target="_blank">psmouty@live.com</a>>> wrote: Hi all, I have just purchased a very cheap webcam (£1.00), and I cannot get *buntu to recognise it?! The only details I have are: PNP (plug and Play) CMOS colour sensors ? 24 bit true colour video mode USB interface "System Requirements" Pentium 200, or higher CPU win 98SE - XP My Machine (s) Ideally It would be used with the laptop so I will give that ones specs! running Oneric (11.10) Kernel 3.0.0-20-generic Gnome 3.2.1 Dual core Intel Core duo T5250 3gb ram Trying to use cheese but have got Kamoso installed and open to suggestions! I have a driver on disk for Windows but cannot get any joy with wine or Mono-runtime Any Ideas gratefully received Grep for it in dmesg, you should at least be able to get a manufacturer's name if it's connecting. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "TBA are particularly glib" </div> </div> </blockquote> Hi, I hope this makes more sense to you than it does me! pete@petes-lappy:/var/log$ grep usb dmesg [ 0.394321] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs [ 0.394339] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub [ 0.394388] usbcore: registered new device driver usb [ 1.070556] usb usb7: hash matches [ 1.604097] usb 3-1: new low speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd [ 2.016067] usb 5-1: new full speed USB device number 2 using uhci_hcd [ 2.298272] input: SONiX USB Device as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0/input/input5 [ 2.298444] generic-usb 0003:0C45:7428.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [SONiX USB Device] on usb-0000:00:1a.0-1/input0 [ 2.298471] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid [ 2.298474] usbhid: USB HID core driver pete@petes-lappy:/var/log$ The web cam was the only thing plugged in to usb at the time of running... <div class="HOEnZb"> <div class="h5"> </div> </div> </blockquote> <div>Hmm, looks like some Sonix devices are supported but not that one. It *might* work with the Windows drivers and ndiswrapper: try extracting the installer in Wine and install the driver with sudo ndiswrapper -i /filepath/filename.inf where /filepath/filename.inf is the path to the extracted files and the driver inf file. Video4Linux might also work but again there's no guarantee.</div> <div> </div> <div>s/</div> </div> -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood <div> "TBA are particularly glib" </div> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> </body> </html>