Comment 40 for bug 56090

Luis F. López M. wrote on 02.02.2007 19:50:
> Any chances to get the Feisty's driver backported to Edgy?
>
> Also, It looks like there's a pwc-source package available for Edgy (to
> be used with module-assistant):
>
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pwc/10.0.12-rc1-1
>
> Could this be the way to solve the issue: Installing pwc-source package
> and then running "m-a a-i pwc"?
>
> I haven't had a change to test it. Can someone please verify if this
> approach works?

Thanks for the clue, it works here (had no time previously to fix the problem, even if there are other ways, e.g:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=282748)

Anyway I'm/was not familiar with module-assistant (it wasn't even installed on my system before), but it did the job properly, save that it put the built module in /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-386/updates/. I just had to copy the newly created file ``pwc.ko'' to its proper place (/lib/modules/2.6.17-10-386/kernel/drivers/media/video/pwc).

Still, it'd be good for other users if the proper module was backported into edgy.

Here are the steps if someone wants to try it out:

-- BEGIN --
apt-get install module-assistant
m-a prepare
m-a a-i pwc
cp /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-386/updates/pwc.ko /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-386/kernel/drivers/media/video/pwc
rmmod pwc
modprobe pwc
-- END --

(You may need build-essentials and stuff).

Have fun,

--
Simon