Re: Steren Webcam

2010/10/31 Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx>

On Sunday, October 31, 2010 19:04:04 Manuel Escudero wrote:
> Steren is a Mexican brand that provides electronic devices at low cost
> for many propouses... By using my virtualized Windows Machine I dicovered
> that this webcam is called a "ZSMC USB PC Camera" and it's driver is called
> "ZS0211" But obviously I can't tell if it works in Windows after installing
> the driver
> or not because I don't have a REAL Windows Machine and because linux does
> not
> recognize it Virtualbox it's unable to recognize it as well...

If:

1) you have Oracle's closed-source version of VirtualBox (not the OSE version
provided by standard Fedora repos)

2) your VirtualBox is configured correctly and you can verify that it supports
USB devices

3) you have installed the webcam driver under Windows virtual machine

then the webcam *should* work under the Windows VM, regardless of any support
from the Linux host. The signal from the webcam should just be passed-through
to vm, without interference from the host OS. Can you verify this first?

Also, can you find some friend with a "real" Windows system and verify that the
webcam is working there? You don't want to chase faulty hardware...

HTH, :-)
Marko

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@Marko: What you say is actually false... For example, even if you have the Oracle's Vbox (That's the one I use)

in a Non-Supportive System, the hardware that you connect to the VM is not going to be recognized, because it's like

you're not plugging anything to the PC.

To verify what I'm saying, Plug an iPhone into a Fresh F12 or even 13 installation and then try to use it inside Oracle's vbox 

with windows, the VM is not going to recognize it until you install the proper packages to give linux support for it (if I'm not wrong, F12

is not going to recognize it at all) and After installing the proper libraries in F13 you might not have full support for it inside Linux, However,

you're going to be able to use it inside the VM With iTunes without any problem.

in the case of the webcam, the PC does not recognize it and is like I'm not plugging anything to the Windows 7 VM.

@Frantisek: The webcam is not recognized, lsusb does not print anything useful, this is the output with the webcam connected:

[levick@LevickPC ~]$ lsusb

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04f2:0841 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd 

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 1784:0006 TopSeed Technology Corp. 

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0461:4d0f Primax Electronics, Ltd 

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 058f:6366 Alcor Micro Corp. Multi Flash Reader

Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

[levick@LevickPC ~]$ 

Wich is the same if the wecam is not plugged in.

I might try to find a real Windows Host to try it in that computer...

I'll be cheking this thread. Any help would be useful, 

Thanks Again, Have a Nice Day.

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