[Qce-ga-discussion] Re: USB Quickcam Home/Web frustration?

[Georg A. <ac...@in...>]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 08:03:44PM +0300, Kai Hendry wrote:
 
> There is nothing at /proc/bus/usb, although I also have a USB mouse! Yes I
> have compiled in Preliminary USB device filesystem !
> hendry@bilbo:/proc/bus/usb$ ls -al
> total 0
> dr-xr-xr-x    2 root     root            0 Apr  5 19:51 .
> dr-xr-xr-x    4 root     root            0 Apr  5 19:51 ..
> hendry@bilbo:/proc/bus/usb$
> Or maybe I missing something out my kernel?

Have you mounted the USB-devfs? (in fstab:
none            /proc/bus/usb           usbdevfs        defaults
)
 

> First I tried the Logitech Quickcam Express driver, but when insmoding
> with 2.4.18 i get:
> bilbo:~/quickcam# insmod quickcam.o
> quickcam.o: unresolved symbol usb_unlink_urb_Rfb7beb04

Looks like a) a problem with symbol versioning and b) that you are loading
the wrong module (mod_quickcam.o is the right one).

> Then I tried Georg Acher's driver.
> And I get this error:
> 
> bilbo:/tmp/quickcam-web# insmod -f quickcamex.o
> Warning: loading quickcamex.o will taint the kernel: no license
> Warning: loading quickcamex.o will taint the kernel: forced load
> quickcamex.o: init_module: Operation not permitted
> Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters,
> including invalid IO or IRQ parameters

Look at the output of "dmesg", that should give the real reason.

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