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I want my Raspberry PI to be able to use this cheap webcam I bought from China.

Identified as

17a1:0128 TASCORP

After quite a bit of searching I found a post from someone who had got it to work by writing a "patch" to GSPCA

So I downloaded the patch and I downloaded GSPCA but before I implemented the changes I figured I should see if I could build GSPCA.

I ran gspca_build and I got this error.

FATAL you need to install the Kernal Source for your runnning kernel

So I went and followed these steps here to get the kernal source.

But it doesn't really say how to "install" the kernal source and I errored out on git checkout rpi-3.6.y but I went into the sub directory and ran it again and it seemed to work.

I ran the build file again but I'm getting the same error.

I then found this question about the kernel source but I don't understand any of it and it gets thread jacked into a rant about GPL.

Update

I ran the git clone git://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git command suggested by abolotnov, after following some instructions on how to enable a swap file as I kept on erroring out, and then I reran the make file.

I'm now receiving an error that the /lib/module/3.6.11+/build/ folder does not exist.

I manually created the build folder and now I'm receiving another error. I'm not sure what should go into the build folder.

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what happens when you run git clone git://github.com/raspberrypi/linux.git ? – abolotnov Feb 25 at 15:42
as an alternative to patching try this version of driver that seems to have required support already as per this post here – abolotnov Feb 25 at 15:50
@abolotnov I believe I got a prompt to log into git when I ran the clone command. I don't have an account so I figured I would have to set that up first. And your second comment just blew my mind, thanks I'll try that after work today. – Biff MaGriff Feb 25 at 16:54

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