Trouble with quickcam express and inserting the module

[Adam Membrey]

Adam Membrey wrote:

> Bob Nielsen wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 05:41:21PM +1100, Adam Membrey wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I've downloading the qc-usb-0.6.2 and I've compiled the module with 
>>> make all.
>>>
>>> I've then tried to sudo insmod quickcam.o and it says invalid module 
>>> format.
>>>
>>> Looking at dmesg it says "no module found in object"
>>>
>>> Anyone have any suggestions or work arounds?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> The syntax would be 'insmod quickcam' or 'modprobe quickcam' (without 
>> the .o or .ko).
>>
>>
>>  
>>
> Well I'm managed to successfully do an insmod of the quickcam.ko and 
> it detects the hardware ....is there anything I need to do after this 
> ? specifically loading it at boot
>
hmmm did an insmod...which loaded the module...added it to my modules 
list and it didnt load..did a modprobe on quickcam and it said module 
not found..yet I go to the compile directory, insprobe it again and it 
loads >:\

Anyone able to help? I realise this is getting annoying but I'm very new 
to linux as you can tell