> pcmcia_core 40896 0
> ide-scsi 7456 0
> eepro100 17264 1
>
> However, there is simply no /dev/video or /dev/video0 file. I believe
> it is either supposed to always be there, or be created upon plugging in
> of the camera. I have Dejagoogled and am unable to find a fix for this
> problem.
Sounds like your distro didnt bother to create them. "mknod" is the
administrator command for creating device files
mknod /dev/video0 c 81 0
How did I get the values ?
Documentation/devices.txt in the kernel says what is defined for the kernel
and what numbering is used. The entry says
81 char video4linux
0 = /dev/video0 Video capture/overlay device
...
63 = /dev/video63 Video capture/overlay device
64 = /dev/radio0 Radio device
...
127 = /dev/radio63 Radio device
192 = /dev/vtx0 Teletext device
...
223 = /dev/vtx31 Teletext device
224 = /dev/vbi0 Vertical blank interrupt
...
255 = /dev/vbi31 Vertical blank interrupt
Most people also ship /dev/MAKEDEV so in /dev you can
./MAKEDEV [whatever]
and it will work out the device ids
