Ben Taylor wrote: >>> Great! Well, webcams generally won't work, support for 99% of them is >>> basically nil due to the lack of source and necessary legwork to make >>> them work via reverse engineering. >>> >> Not entirely true. The current webcams used these days are UVC compliant >> in so much they require firmware to be loaded before UVC is loaded. It >> would be a matter for Sun to licence the firmware for redistribution and >> them creating a framework to make that firmware loading/unloading >> possible (as part of the UVC framework). >> >> > > Well, interestingly enough, I have worked on the zyd driver, > as well as looking at the zdwlan driver which was developed > on Solaris 9/Sparc. > > An interesting concept that the original author of zdwlan > used was to extract the firmware out of the Windows driver > and stick it in a reserved space in the zdwlan driver to > make sure that the firmware got loaded. It works. I used > it with another one of my zydas based devices, and was > able to make some progress (I got it scanning, acquiring > a DHCP address to a WEP'd AP, but it didn't pass packets). > > Perhaps this sort of strategy could be used with > webcams? > > Ben Sounds familiar alright.
This chap installed ubuntu on the laptop: http://www.land-of-kain.de/docs/sony_vaio_sz61_mnb/ If you follow the links you get to the page explaining how they got the webcam working. http://www.uuhaus.de/linux/Debian%20Linux%20on%20the%20Sony%20VGN-TZ21VN.html Worth raising a bug? John > > _______________________________________________ > laptop-discuss mailing list > laptop-discuss at opensolaris.org
