installing webcam on ubuntu 8.04

[Derek Broughton]

Hervé Fache wrote:

> Olà!
> 
> Could you please provide us the output of the following command:
> sudo lshw

Which might be excessively verbose.  It's probably a USB device (beats me
why webcams are attached to the USB system even when hardwired), so the
output of "lsusb" would be useful.
> 
> Also, the webcam sometimes needs to be started using a special
> function key on the keyboard (mine does).

Ugh.  :-)
-- 
derek