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[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 18:01 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 15:15 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> >> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006, Ric Moore wrote:
> >>> Did you ever get rountoit? I would like to make the dang webcam work,
> >>> just for ducks! Ric
> >>
> >> You might want to try out that spca5xx cam again.  There's a new driver
> >> out (as of last month) which now works for me in FC5.
> >
> > Great!! Care to give a mini-HOWTO?, especially with FC not installing a
> > full kernel install? All I have is my kernel rpm and the kernel-devel
> > package. Is there anything else I need? I sure want to give it a whirl!
> > Ric
> >
> > ps I have 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 installed.
> 
> make && make install
> should be sufficient

Since I'm running FC5, the make complained that I didn't have a full
kernel install. I miss the old days when the kernel was a full blown
kernel with all the files installed to build the kernel without blowing
up the machine. <Sighs> 
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...the Sin of Stupidity.
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