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On 18 Jun 2008, at 18:50, Matthew R. Lee wrote: |
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> ... |
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> I've done a lsusb and got the following info: |
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> Bus 001 Device 003: ID 5354:80e3 [no model or manufacturer info] |
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> |
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> I've looked through various webcam, gentoo-wiki, and V4L sites to |
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> see if those |
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> IDs mean anything, but no luck sofar. I even tried googling them. |
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> Truth is |
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> I'm not sure what they actually refer to. |
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I'm more familiar with PCI IDs <http://www.pcidatabase.com/> but |
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presumably USB IDs work the same. |
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The one part of the ID belongs to the manufacturer, the other relates |
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to the specific device - eg you can see from the list at <http:// |
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www.linux-usb.org/usb.ids> that 03f0:0004 would be a Hewlett-Packard |
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DeskJet 895c. |
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Normally when you run `lspci` (and I would imagine `lsusb`) the |
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manufacturer & model are looked up and, instead of the numbers, are |
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shown by name. In your case no-one has submitted your numbers to the |
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database or names to match them. |
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AIUI the IDs are picked fairly arbitrarily, so two devices with the |
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same chipset may have completely different numbers. Often (always?) |
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the author of a driver will include a list of supported devices in |
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the driver's header files, and the driver will check to see if any |
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supported devices are present before trying to do any magic. |
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Thus it may be that - in fact, I'd imagine it's likely that - your |
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device uses the same chipset as (say) a Logitech webcam or an Apple |
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iSight, but the module isn't autoloaded because the driver doesn't |
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know about it. If you are able to determine the chipset - a Google |
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provides little information, so the obvious way is to open the case |
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with a screwdriver & inspect the identifiers printed on the largest |
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chip on the board - it should be pretty easy to add your device (see, |
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for example, where 3890 is mentioned in line 115 of /usr/src/linux/ |
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drivers/net/wireless/prism54/prism54.mod.c and <http:// |
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www.pcidatabase.com/vendor_details.php?id=1132>) |
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Stroller. |
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