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Microsoft Lifecam vx3000 under linux

Pauly

2006-08-31, 1:21 pm

I am finding that this webcam is not supported under linux. Would it be
worth to try ndiswrapper for it? Anyone have experience doing such
thing with a webcam?

John-Paul Stewart

2006-08-31, 7:28 pm

Pauly wrote:
> I am finding that this webcam is not supported under linux. Would it be
> worth to try ndiswrapper for it? Anyone have experience doing such
> thing with a webcam?

There's no point in trying ndiswrapper for anything but network card
drivers. "NDIS" stands for "Network Driver Interface Specification". I
highly doubt your webcam's Windows driver was written to the NDIS spec,
and I highly doubt you'd want it seen as a network interface by the
Linux kernel.

Ndiswrapper is not some magic wrapper for all drivers!