Saturday, September 13, 2008

solving the webcam and wireless on everex cloudbook

Here is how to solve the wireless range and stability
http://forum.netbookuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=543

Follow this guide and you'll have amazing range and stability.
http://www.aircrack-ng.org/doku.php?id=r8187 OR

(as root)

wget http://dl.aircrack-ng.org/drivers/rtl81 … 6.1010.zip
unzip rtl8187_linux_26.1010.zip
cd rtl8187_linux_26.1010.0622.2006/
wget http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/rtl8187_2.6.24v3.patch
tar xzf drv.tar.gz
tar xzf stack.tar.gz
patch -Np1 -i rtl8187_2.6.24v3.patch
make
make install
depmod -ae
echo "r8187" >> /etc/modules
echo "blacklist rtl8187" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

webcam which is easy

1. apt-get install module-assistant
2. module-assistant prepare
3. module-assistant auto-install linux-uvc
4. modprobe uvcvideo

more about this webcam

Webcam

Like the WLAN card, the webcam is internally connected via USB. It uses a Bison chip that can be found in many notebook and Logitech webcams. A Linux kernel driver is available as an external source package, "linux-uvc-source"; it will be officially included starting with Linux kernel 2.6.27. The Debian distribution kernel 2.6.26 already includes this module; "modprobe uvcvideo" activates it. The webcam can be used, for example, by running xawtv with the command line argument "-d /dev/video0". However, recording from it, for example with ffmpeg, does not work since the camera does not seem to return correct image geometry information.

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