phillips webcams on warty

swingincelt ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Wed Dec 8 03:32:11 UTC 2004


David Williamson Wrote: 
> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 19:38 -0500, kleeman wrote:
> > You should not have to. I have had this camera working fine on warty
> > without a recompile of the kernel. Check out this link
> > 
> > http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/
> > 
> > The script recompiles the module which also allows big webcam sizes
> a
> > la the old pwcx module
> 
> Thanks for the pointer!  Trying to build as described at the link
> above... But now I'm running into more problems (that are probably not
> problems for the old hands here):
> 
> root at twosixsix:/usr/src/pwc-10.0.6a # make
> make -C /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-3-386/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/pwc-10.0.6a
> modules
> make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-3-386/build: No such file or directory.
> Stop.
> make: *** [default] Error 2
> 
> Well, sure enough, there IS no build file or directory
> under /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-3-386 ... but beyond that I don't know
> where
> to go.  I guess I need some kinda development library or tool but I
> don't know which one.
> 
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> dave w
> 
> 
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Yes, You need to install the headers package for your kernel.
linux-headers-*

Make sure the numbers match your linux-image package.

Cheers,
SwinginCelt


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