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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: Neuro7 on 2 December 2002, 00:08

Title: Webcams?
Post by: Neuro7 on 2 December 2002, 00:08

Do webcams work in Linux? I have RedHat 8.0 and a 3com webcam and was wondering how I would go about getting it to work in Linux. 3com only made drivers for win98 and said that they wouldn't support any other OS's.

Thanks,
Neuro7

Title: Webcams?
Post by: preacher on 2 December 2002, 00:17

Hope this is what you are looking for.

http://homeconnectusb.sourceforge.net/ (http://homeconnectusb.sourceforge.net/)

Title: Webcams?
Post by: Neuro7 on 2 December 2002, 00:23

Thanks Preacher,
That looks like what I think I need. I will try it out.

Neuro7

Title: Webcams?
Post by: voidmain on 2 December 2002, 10:37

I have the 3com Home Connect. Mine never worked in any distro, until I upgraded my kernel to 2.4.19. Now it works in GnomeMeeting and I can grab snapshots from it from the command line. Haven't figured out how to get it to work in Kino yet. But I think the video really sucks on this camera (mine anyway) no matter what OS you run it in.