Hi Larry, gspca driver can help you, take a look: http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html
and on debian you can try to pick up a precompiled binary by doing: apt-cache search gspca apt will list all packages with gspca in the string and then: apt-get install <packge-name> (probabily gspca...) See Ya, Geraldo On 17/12/2007, Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm almost getting it to work with Debian Etch. I can > insert a pcmcia usb card and read/write to usb memory > sticks. Haven't worked up to the webcam yet. > > --- Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > I've an old dell laptop that is barely adequate > > for > > > Linux, and the pcmcia usb card doesn't seem to > > play > > > in Debian etch. > > > > So there is no fixed USB in that laptop, and the > > BIOS > > probably does not support any USB. Modern BIOSes do > > support USB keyboard, mouse and storage (flash, > > cdrom, > > floppy, harddisk) connected via USB. Nice for DOS. > > Maybe you can use a "lighter" version of Linux? Does > > the laptop come with some sort of DOS pcmcia > > drivers? > > Or does the pcmcia usb card come with DOS drivers? > > > > > I was wondering if I would gain by just installing > > > freedos. Then the question is, does Freedos on a > > > laptop have drivers for the pcmcia, and usb? > > > > You would not gain much. There are free but > > commercial > > USB storage drivers from various vendors. I think > > all > > PCMCIA drivers are nonfree. The Deskwork.de > > shareware > > GUI has a bit of PCMCIA support, and IBM PC DOS and > > maybe others have card drivers, too. We even have > > the > > permission to use a code snippet from Deskwork if we > > want to make our own PCMCIA drivers, but nobody has > > started to work on this yet. The idea is to use this > > code, some ramdisk source code, the kernel initdisk > > source code, the udma PIO mode (no DMA in PCMCIA) > > and > > some ISA PnP code, throw them together, and then > > have > > a driver for PCMCIA CF disks and similar :-). There > > is also a generic semi-commercial USB driver kit > > from > > Georg Potthast. If you are good or if you can pay, > > it > > might be a way to make a cam driver based on this > > kit > > and an existing Linux cam driver. But then, the > > Linux > > cam driver will be GPL / open source and the driver > > of > > Georg is not, so licenses might be a problem here. > > > > Eric > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > > It's the best place to buy or sell services > > for just about anything Open Source. > > > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > > _______________________________________________ > > Freedos-user mailing list > > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services > for just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- site: http://extremedev.sf.net msn: geraldo_boca_at_hotmail.com skype: geraldo-netto icq: 145-061-456 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
