On Tuesday 04 December 2007, arakeis wrote:
> 2007/11/24, Laurent Pinchart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I think that's right. Previous Ricoh webcams were not completely USB
> > compliant. Sam Revitch wrote a specific driver called r5u870 that handles
> > firmware loading as well as device-specific requests. You should have a
> > look
> > at it.
>
> looked at it, but the maintainer and website seems away, I tried manually
> patching the driver to use another firmware from a close model (I know it is
> a bit optimistic) I get a device node created, and when used a brief green
> led flash, and it crashes obviously.
>
> is it easy to extract a firmware from a working windows setup ?

Sorry I have no idea :-( I don't own any Ricoh webcam.

> (i tried contacting the maintainer but so far no luck)

Keep trying :-)

Good luck.

Laurent Pinchart
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