Trouble with quickcam express and inserting the module

[Bob Nielsen]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 06:43:50PM +1100, Adam Membrey wrote:
> Adam Membrey wrote:
> 
> >Bob Nielsen wrote:
> >
> >>On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 05:41:21PM +1100, Adam Membrey wrote:
> >> 
> >>
> >>>I've downloading the qc-usb-0.6.2 and I've compiled the module with 
> >>>make all.
> >>>
> >>>I've then tried to sudo insmod quickcam.o and it says invalid module 
> >>>format.
> >>>
> >>>Looking at dmesg it says "no module found in object"
> >>>
> >>>Anyone have any suggestions or work arounds?
> >>>  
> >>
> >>
> >>The syntax would be 'insmod quickcam' or 'modprobe quickcam' (without 
> >>the .o or .ko).
> >>
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >Well I'm managed to successfully do an insmod of the quickcam.ko and 
> >it detects the hardware ....is there anything I need to do after this 
> >? specifically loading it at boot
> >
> hmmm did an insmod...which loaded the module...added it to my modules 
> list and it didnt load..did a modprobe on quickcam and it said module 
> not found..yet I go to the compile directory, insprobe it again and it 
> loads >:\
> 
> Anyone able to help? I realise this is getting annoying but I'm very new 
> to linux as you can tell

The easiest way would be to create a script in /etc/init.d which does
what you successfully did manually and link to it from /etc/rc2.d (use
update-rc.d to do this).

The ideal way is to compile and install it such that it gets put under
/lib/modules/<kernel-version>, such that it will either be loaded
automatically or from an entry in /etc/modules.  This can be somewhat
tricky, but doing so will get up well up the Linux learning curve. :^)

IMHO, the safest way is to install kernel-package with synaptic (or
create a .deb which you can install with dpkg.  This is also the "Debian
way" to create a custom kernel.

Be sure to read /usr/local/kernel-package/README.modules as well as the
man page for make-kpkg.  You will need either the linux-source or
linux-headers package which matches the kernel you are using.  You will
need to have the '--revision=' option to make-kpkg match the kernel
version.

It will definitely be a learning experience.  Good luck.

Bob