On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 08:46:33 +0200, Raven wrote: > Hi all. I recently upgraded my desktop box to a more powerful hardware > configuration. Before the upgrade (and the re-install of debian > unstable) I was running a vanilla kernel, but now I switched to the one > from the repositories, "2.6.29-2-amd64". > > I plugged in a 3com HomeConnect USB webcam and the "vicam" module was > loaded successfully. Unfortunately when I try to grab video from it I > get syslog entries complaining about a missing firmware file: > > [65770.532020] usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 > [65770.701070] usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=04c1, idProduct=009d > [65770.701073] usb 4-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, > SerialNumber=3 > [65770.701075] usb 4-1: Product: 3Com HomeConnect USB Camera > [65770.701076] usb 4-1: Manufacturer: 3Com > [65770.701077] usb 4-1: SerialNumber: 23G6BB59D5TM > [65770.701146] usb 4-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > [65770.817811] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 > [65770.829649] ViCam based webcam connected > [65770.829691] ViCam webcam driver now controlling video device 0 > [65770.829703] usbcore: registered new interface driver vicam > [66185.544395] usb 4-1: firmware: requesting vicam/firmware.fw > [66185.560383] Failed to load "vicam/firmware.fw": -2
[...] The firmware seems to have been removed from the Debian kernel. You can download the firmware blob from git.kernel.org wget -O firmware.fw "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware-from-kernel.git;a=blob_plain;f=vicam/firmware.fw;hb=HEAD"; and try if copying it to /lib/firmware/vicam/firmware.fw makes the firmware available to the driver. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
