I've got Debian (Lenny) running pretty well on my Compaq Presario C751NR
laptop. I got this thing as a refurb and it came with Vista (yech).
Problems I'm encountering though if anyone has suggestions are:
Wireless:
There's a button on the laptop above the keyboard to turn the wireless
on/off - it's been in the off state since I dumped Windows. The Compaq bios
is all but useless (dumbed down to the point that no advanced features are
accessible). I can not for the life of me figure out how to turn this back
on. I have tried the ndiswrapper/madwifi solutions to load a driver for it
and it does show up in lspci, but it never shows up ifconfig. I'm guessing
it has something to do with the fact the button is soft-offed somehow and if
I could just toggle it on life would be goodness.
Webcam & camcorder
Both are USB devices and nothing at all happens when I plug either in.
Webcam: Creative Labs model VF0400
Camcorder: Panasonic PV-GS320
For the Webcam, I found instructions for setting up xawtv, which I followed
and which seemed to install with all dependencies met and with no problems,
but when run:
geeknix:/usr/src/modules# xawtv
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.26-1-686-bigmem)
xinerama 0: 1280x800+0+0
can't open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
v4l: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory
no video grabber device available
If I use the hardware scan switch I get
geeknix:/usr/src/modules# xawtv -hwscan
This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.26-1-686-bigmem)
looking for available devices
port 84-99
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : Intel(R) Textured Video
port 100-100
type : Xvideo, image scaler
name : Intel(R) Video Overlay
If I check w/ lsusb, it's there
geeknix:/usr/src/modules# lsusb | grep -i creative
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 041e:4061 Creative Technology, Ltd
Not sure where to go from here though. Suggestions?
For the camcorder, I have no clue where to even start.
Again though, it is there (per lsusb)
geeknix:/usr/src/modules# lsusb | grep -i panasonic
Bus 004 Device 013: ID 04da:231d Panasonic (Matsushita) DVC Web Camera
Device
Any leads, suggestions, wild ass guesses, whatever appreciated. THANKS!
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