What /dev is ethernet Webcam

Sharpe, Sam J sam.sharpe+lists.redhat at gmail.com
Tue May 26 21:28:54 UTC 2009


2009/5/26 Rick Stevens <ricks at nerd.com>:
> Jim wrote:
>>
>> FC10
>>
>> I have a Linksys Wireless-G PTZ WVC210 Ip/ethernet/wireless 802.1 webcam.
>> it displays video fine in Firefox at 172.16.1.36, how do I find out what
>> /dev it is running on ?
>
> The fact it's called an "IP/Ethernet/Wireless webcam" should give you
> an indication.  It's a website--not a device--as far as your system is
> concerned.
>
> Only devices which plug into your motherboard directly using something
> other than the network interface (e.g. PCI bus, USB, Firewire, etc.)
> show up under /dev.

And LinuxQuestions agrees with this answer:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/dev-type-for-ip-webcam-728643/#post3553594

-- 
Sam




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