Webcam with FC6

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Tue Dec 12 07:08:20 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 13:47 -0500, Mike Zingale wrote:
> Keith, I have, I believe, the same camera. You need to install the
> SPCA driver for it -- this is not part of the mainline kernel.  The
> following worked for me:
> 
> 
> wget http://drpixel.tuxfamily.org/fedora/drpixel-release-1-1.noarch.rpm
> rpm -Uvh drpixel-release-1-1.noarch.rpm
> yum install --enablerepo=drpixel kmod-gspca
> 
> in aMSN, if you use a NAT/router, you need to open ports 6890-6900 for
> the camera to work.  I believe I also had to do this in the fedora
> firewall.
Is that ports 6890 through 6900 or just the two?
Ric





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