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[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Ric Moore wrote:
> 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>

Install the kernel-devel RPM.

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