F-14 and a USB Webcam -

Ranjan Maitra maitra at iastate.edu
Mon Dec 13 04:05:12 UTC 2010


On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 21:08:53 -0600 Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
wrote:

> On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 10:58 -0600, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > How do we know if this is uvc compatiable?
> 
> Type in dmesg, plug in the camera, wait a moment, type in dmesg, again.
> Look for changes between the results.  Whatever the computer noticed
> after plugging in the camera should be at the end.
> 
> You can show us the output from dmesg, by redirecting it to a file.  We
> probably only need differences in the tail end of the results.
> 
> e.g. dmesg | tail -20 > results1
>      (plug in the camera and wait)
>      dmesg | tail -20 > results2
>      diff results1 results2
> 

Ok thanks! Here is the diff:

1,3d0
< [35110.550063] wlan0: associated
< [35110.582592] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
< [35119.450126] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
20a18,20
> [82059.305101] usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 7
> [82059.468254] usb 4-1: New USB device found, idVendor=041e, idProduct=401b
> [82059.468299] usb 4-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=0, SerialNumber=0


I presume that the last three lines are the relevant ones to the webcam?

Many thanks,
Ranjan


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