Engineer-Poet's Journal: Help with a toy USB camera

I bought a few toys to give as gifts, and I ran into some trouble with the one I'm testing. Maybe you can help.

I bought a toy digital camera (says it's also a webcam). Unfortunately, when I plug it into my Mandriva system, the auto-mounter doesn't know what to do with it; it's there on the USB bus but it is not recognized as a filesystem.

The unit is made by "Jeilin Technology Corp., Ltd" and has ID 0979:0224. How can I mount this thing to look at it? I can't use the provided driver software - and I doubt that I'd want to.

If these things can't be made to work without funky drivers, I don't think I want to subject anyone else to them.

Ubuntu device database

[tqft]

Ubuntu has a device database which collects data on all the attachments on all the machines that report back to Ubuntu - you get a choice.

So for some detail it may specs in there for you
http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/11/10-things-th at-make-ubuntu-neophytes.html [blogspot.com]
http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/02/12/pci-ubuntu- check-compatibility/ [wordpress.com]

If you can find something similar in the device database - you might eb able to get enough info to get it working

Not quite what I was looking for

[Engineer-Poet]

The first page does not even mention USB, and the second is explicitly about PCI devices.

I did a Google search for the manufacturer, and did not find any pages related to Linux. That's why I'm now looking for more generic info.

Re:

[tqft]

Sorry it was too close to beer-o-clock Friday before Xmas.

What I meant was that the Ubuntu maintains a large database of hardware collected from all users who click the submit button.

Have you tried a Ubuntu or knoppix live cd on machine with the webcam and see what settings it chooses for it and if they work?