[Gloucs] usb driver module for webcam

[David Leadbeater]

Hi,

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 06:16:01PM +0000, Glyn Davies wrote:
> I am led to believe that my USB webcam is "supported by the EM28XX driver".
> 
> However, it is not recognised by Ubuntu when it is plugged in. I assume 
> this is just a case of telling the OS that usb device ID eb1a:2710 
> requires the EM28XX driver and/or vice versa.

You should be able to do:

  modprobe em28xx
  echo eb1a 2710 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/em28xx/new_id

(The ID has been added in the latest upstream kernel, see:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-cards.c
)

David