Inspiron 1525 Webcam

[nick43137]

I was wondering how I get my webcam to work with BT4.

Thanks!

[xorred]

Most webcams work with uvc. http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/

[secure_it]

For your kind information.those drivers are already in BT4 as they comes by default with 2.6.26 & above.

[Citruspers]

Out of curiosity: why do you want to use your webcam on a pentesting distro? Do you want to videochat with relatives (not really backtrack's aim), or do you have a motion detection app to protect your laptop? (which would actually be awesome at cons, just imagine a siren going off as soon as someone nears it)

[goon123]

hallo,

i would like to use my webcam and chat with someone on the one interface, while playing around with the other wlan interface, thats why I would like to get my cam to work.

I've exactly the same problem. It is said, that above Kernel 2.6.26 the UVC driver is nativly.
But on my backtrack 4 pre final it is not working.
any help is apreciated

thx

[drgr33n]

can you post all the relevant info like dmesg outputs ETC.

To test try

mplayer tv://

[goon123]

Player 1.0rc2-4.3.2 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7100 @ 1.80GHz (Family: 6, Model: 15, Stepping: 13)
CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1
Compiled with runtime CPU detection.
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing tv://.
TV file format detected.
Selected driver: v4l2
name: Video 4 Linux 2 input
author: Martin Olschewski <olschewski@zpr.uni-koeln.de>
comment: first try, more to come ;-)
v4l2: unable to open '/dev/video0': No such file or directory
v4l2: ioctl set mute failed: Bad file descriptor
v4l2: 0 frames successfully processed, 0 frames dropped.


Exiting... (End of file)

[Archangel-Amael]

mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.
P)

Upgrade to BT4 P-F.
You are probably going to be on your own for getting help and support for a web-cam in BT4.
This is probably not on the dev-team "to-do" list.

[goon123]

i did the upgrade...or isn't the upgrade apt-get upgarde

[Barry]

i did the upgrade...or isn't the upgrade apt-get upgarde

No, it isn't. BTb and BTpf are completely different beasts. Beta is still slax based, pre-final is ubuntu based. You can't upgrade from beta to pre-final, you have to do a reinstall.