Webcam help, please

[just_another_mib]

Hello all,

I recently tried to install a Logitech Communicate STX USB webcam on my desktop running Suse 10.2. I am still very new to Linux, so I tried to follow the directions in another thread:

You will need the to download the source code for the web cam driver here:
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Down...20060925.tar.gz

Unpack the tar file and then go into the directory it upacks to. Run Make and as root run make install. Now unfortunately even though it runs the install correctly it doesn't get anywhere that 'insmod' seems to see it. So you need to copy the .ko file to a directory it belongs in.

as root: cp gspca.ko /lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp/kernel/drivers/input/misc/

Now the kicker 'insmod' still won't see it SO i did a neat little cheat. Go to the directory you copied it in using a GUI file browser as super user. I don't know if this works in Gnome but in KDE you can right click it and select "Open With" and in the dialog box type insmod then select 'OK'.

But when I go to the directory and type "make", I get the following output:
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/drew/Desktop/gspcav1-20070110/gspcav1-20070110 CC=cc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34-obj/i386/default'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34-obj/i386/default'
make: *** [default] Error 2

And when I type "make install", I get:
mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca.ko
install -c -m 0644 gspca.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
install: cannot stat `gspca.ko': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1

Naturally I can't get any farther than that and can't find the gspca.ko file, to which it seems to refer, anywhere.

All of the other helps that I've seen seem to say the same thing, but I can't seem to get it to do what I'm told it should do.
What am I doing wrong here?

[gogalthorp]

Hello all,

I recently tried to install a Logitech Communicate STX USB webcam on my desktop running Suse 10.2. I am still very new to Linux, so I tried to follow the directions in another thread:

You will need the to download the source code for the web cam driver here:
http://mxhaard.free.fr/spca50x/Down...20060925.tar.gz

Unpack the tar file and then go into the directory it upacks to. Run Make and as root run make install. Now unfortunately even though it runs the install correctly it doesn't get anywhere that 'insmod' seems to see it. So you need to copy the .ko file to a directory it belongs in.

as root: cp gspca.ko /lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp/kernel/drivers/input/misc/

Now the kicker 'insmod' still won't see it SO i did a neat little cheat. Go to the directory you copied it in using a GUI file browser as super user. I don't know if this works in Gnome but in KDE you can right click it and select "Open With" and in the dialog box type insmod then select 'OK'.

But when I go to the directory and type "make", I get the following output:
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/drew/Desktop/gspcav1-20070110/gspcav1-20070110 CC=cc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34-obj/i386/default'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34-obj/i386/default'
make: *** [default] Error 2

And when I type "make install", I get:
mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca.ko
install -c -m 0644 gspca.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
install: cannot stat `gspca.ko': No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1

Naturally I can't get any farther than that and can't find the gspca.ko file, to which it seems to refer, anywhere.

All of the other helps that I've seen seem to say the same thing, but I can't seem to get it to do what I'm told it should do.
What am I doing wrong here?

Do you have the Kernel source files installed???

[just_another_mib]

I'm very new, so I'm not sure what you mean. I have a basic CD installation of Suse 10.2. Is there more to the kernel than that? If so, where do I find the files I need?

[gogalthorp]

I'm very new, so I'm not sure what you mean. I have a basic CD installation of Suse 10.2. Is there more to the kernel than that? If so, where do I find the files I need?

You go to Yast-Software Managment search for kernel. You should see if the source files are installed or not.