Managed to get wireless to work but...

[carlolovearianne]

Hi everybody.

I've been using Hardy on my 2 month old Asus A8HE laptop (check out https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/AsusA8HE) and everything is working great, especially now that I finally got the wireless to work. No small thanks to the post I found at [WWW] http://www.ubuntugeek.com/atheros-ar...dy-heron.html#. That post was truly life-affirming.

However, I still have a few of issues that I will greatly appreciate if it gets solved:

1. Webcam. The Asus A8HE's got a built-in webcam and I'm truly at my wits end on how to get it to work. I tried installing EasyCam2 and unfortunately it didn't worked. Hope anybody can help.

2. VCDs doesn't work. Is there a way to play VCDs without installing mPlayer?

3. Can anybody suggest a dvd ripper that actually works? What I'm looking to do is to rip my dvds and convert them to mp4s.

4. When I try to burn cds (whether a music cd or a data cd) I end up with a useless (but shiny) silver coaster. I tried using Brasero and Nautilus but it doesn't work. DVD burning works flawlessly, though. Am I missing something?

[balagosa]

1. Webcam. The Asus A8HE's got a built-in webcam and I'm truly at my wits end on how to get it to work. I tried installing EasyCam2 and unfortunately it didn't worked. Hope anybody can help.

2. VCDs doesn't work. Is there a way to play VCDs without installing mPlayer?

3. Can anybody suggest a dvd ripper that actually works? What I'm looking to do is to rip my dvds and convert them to mp4s.

4. When I try to burn cds (whether a music cd or a data cd) I end up with a useless (but shiny) silver coaster. I tried using Brasero and Nautilus but it doesn't work. DVD burning works flawlessly, though. Am I missing something?

kudos to Asus A8HE User.

anyways,

1) please type in and post the outcome of

lsusb

I typed this in and i got a certain USB ID without a name aside from the 0000:0000. it was the built-in webcam.

you can search a driver for this.

2) hmmm....not that i know of? maybe you can mount a VCD and get it's files but playing a movie without a mplayer??

3)havent tried this yet. all i tried was Burning with brasero.

4) hmmm....might be hardware problems? i tried burning a CD on 7.10 and it was flawless (as testified by MD5 checksum). to be specific, i burned a C&C Generals (Image) to the CD.

[carlolovearianne]

Here's the lsusb results:

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 174f:aa11  
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

I don't know where to start

[carlolovearianne]

I did a little web searching and managed to downloaded the stk11xx driver for my webcam. (http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=435) It's a tar.gz file and sitting on my desktop at the moment.

I don't know what to do with it and I'm clueless right now

There is a link from the address above on how to install it but it's in German.

Please help.

[balagosa]

carlo, please clarify if your camera is supported in Linux.

because i got sources from two websites saying that 174f:aa11 isnt supported on linux. tough luck. i also have the same prob.

Website 1

Website 2

[carlolovearianne]

I just checked the sites ,so I guess tough luck indeed, huh? Well I could live without the webcam and it wasn't that too much of a big deal, anyway. I just thought that it would be nice if I could get it to work. Anyway the wireless is working perfectly, no connection drop outs... We just can't win them all .

And apart from the webcam and a few nibbles, my laptop is working (almost) perfectly. I love it.

And big thanks to Canonical! I just recieved a copy of Ubuntu and Kubuntu 8.04 that I requested back in April 22nd. I can throw away the cheapo dvd-r I burned the Hardy ISO a few weeks ago

Long live Ubuntu!

[balagosa]

but do not loose hope though. just keep updated. those sites i referred to you were old. just keep searching the net for your Cam Driver.

i even heard that my Cam now has a Driver, just released months ago.

[balagosa]

carlo...i got good news.

i got my built-in Cam workign with USB ID:
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 174f:5a11 Syntek

weird though...

i want you to execute this command carlo, because this made my cam work

sudo update-usbid

i would like to thank nicedude for giving me an idea, he had one post where he said updating pci ids by

sudo update-pciid

[carlolovearianne]

Thanks.

I ran the command and i got a sudo: update-usbid: command not found.


Anything you did before running sudo: update-usbid?

[carlolovearianne]

Thanks man.

I tries it with an "s" (sudo update usbids) and I got this:

--11:24:11--  http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/usb.ids
           => `/var/lib/misc/usb.ids.new'
Resolving linux-usb.sourceforge.net... 66.35.250.209
Connecting to linux-usb.sourceforge.net|66.35.250.209|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 347,477 (339K) [text/plain]

100%[====================================>] 347,477       88.81K/s    ETA 00:00

11:24:16 (80.85 KB/s) - `/var/lib/misc/usb.ids.new' saved [347477/347477]

Then I ran lsusb. Here is the result:

Bus 005 Device 002: ID 174f:aa11 Syntek Web Cam
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 002: ID 046d:c016 Logitech, Inc. M-UV69a/HP M-UV96 Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000


Whereas before it was:


Bus 005 Device 002: ID 174f:aa11
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Did it work for you straight away?

I have Cheese installed and its not working (yet) sadly.