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How To Install Trust Webcam Driver On Fedora Core 6?

I have downloaded gspcav1-20061216.tar.gz, which is meant to work on my Trust Spacec@m Portable, but has no readme and I think it is just source code and so needs to be compiled. I don't know how to compile it or if it is even the right thing. I downloaded from http://mxhaard.free.fr/download.html

Can someone help me able to use the webcam?

There's a script in there called gspca_build. Try running that as root.

I get this from Terminal as root

Code:

[root@localhost gspcav1-20061216]# ./gspca_build



 FATAL you need to install the Kernel Source for your running kernel

[root@localhost gspcav1-20061216]#

I searched in yum for the word kernel and found

Code:

Available Packages

kernel.i586                              2.6.18-1.2868.fc6      updates        

kernel-PAE.i686                          2.6.18-1.2868.fc6      updates        

kernel-PAE-devel.i686                    2.6.18-1.2868.fc6      updates        

kernel-devel.i686                        2.6.18-1.2868.fc6      updates        

kernel-devel.i586                        2.6.18-1.2868.fc6      updates        

kernel-doc.noarch                        2.6.18-1.2868.fc6      updates        

kernel-kdump.i686                        2.6.18-1.2868.fc6      updates        

kernel-kdump-devel.i686                  2.6.18-1.2868.fc6      updates        

kernel-xen-devel.i686                    2.6.18-1.2868.fc6      updates

is it.. kernel-devel.i686? or something totally different?

I haven't a clue to be honest, I thought the -devel packages just contained the headers. You could try installing that and see what happens.

I installed and then ran the script and got this

Code:

[aaron@localhost gspcav1-20061216]$ sudo ./gspca_build



 REMOVE the old module if present

./gspca_build: line 18: rmmod: command not found



 CLEAN gspca source tree

rm -r -f *.o decoder/.gspcadecoder.o.cmd decoder/*.o \

        .gspca.o.cmd  *.o *.ko *.mod.* .[a-z]* core *.i \

        *.symvers *.err



 COMPILE gspca Please Wait ....!!



 INSTALL gspca in the kernel binary tree

mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/

rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko

rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca.ko

install -c -m 0644 gspca.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/

/sbin/depmod -ae



 LOAD gspca in memory 

./gspca_build: line 30: modprobe: command not found



 PRINT COMPILATION MESSAGES if ERRORS look kgspca.err 

make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/aaron/Desktop/gspcav1-20061216 CC=cc modules

make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2868.fc6-i686'

  CC [M]  /home/aaron/Desktop/gspcav1-20061216/gspca_core.o

  CC [M]  /home/aaron/Desktop/gspcav1-20061216/decoder/gspcadecoder.o

  LD [M]  /home/aaron/Desktop/gspcav1-20061216/gspca.o

  Building modules, stage 2.

  MODPOST

  CC      /home/aaron/Desktop/gspcav1-20061216/gspca.mod.o

  LD [M]  /home/aaron/Desktop/gspcav1-20061216/gspca.ko

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2868.fc6-i686'

Where are modprobe and rmmod located in Fedora? On Slack, they're in /sbin, but it might be different. Is that directory in your $PATH? Not sure if it'll make a difference, but can you do a "su -" and become root (instead of using sudo) and see if that works?

I don't know where they're located but I restarted and webcam seems to work, dark..but better than nothing.. I'm just not sure if I can now remove the files from my desktop :S

I just renamed just to check and is fine, and then deleted and is fine, so i guess i don't need the original files after all.