From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:16:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:15:58 -0400 Received: from archive.osdlab.org ([65.201.151.11]:37768 "EHLO fire.osdlab.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 18:15:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3B8EB99F.3DA5F005@osdlab.org> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:09:35 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-20mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Fredrickson CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: IBM, are you there? In-Reply-To: <20010830165735.A2498@frednet.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthew Fredrickson wrote: > > Is there anybody here from IBM that might be able to get in contact with > me? I need to ask some questions concerning getting some hardware > documentation on the IBM Net Camera (produced by xirlink). I've tried to > get a hold of someone there that might be able to get me some > documentation but all the seem to think I need is windows API docs > *shrug*. Here's a good chance for you guys to help linux without having > to spend a billion dollars, lol :-D . No offense intended of course. > Just trying to write a driver for this webcam that I bought, thought it > might be a bit easier to ask rather than trying to hack this out on my > own. Mostly what I'm concerned about is control documentation and the > data compression format of the data coming from the camera. Matthew- Another option is asking on the linux-usb-devel mailing list to see if anyone is already working on this (like Dmitri). See www.linux-usb.org for mailing list info and present IBM webcam support. ~Randy