First off, remember that fprint is not entirely stable, and may not work all the time. A list of supported devices is here, and the list of unsupported devices is here. 1. First thing to do is add the [third-party] fprint repository to your sources file '/etc/apt/sources.list' # Fingerprint reader support (fprint) deb ...

Well, webcam started working on Ubuntu in my HP Pavilion dv2000 model. Here is the details of what did to get the webcam running on using Ubuntu. $ svn checkout http://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/linux-uvc/ $ cd linux-uvc/linux-uvc/trunk/ $ make $ sudo make install $ modprobe uvcvideo Tested with 'ekiga ' and 'xawtv' ...