From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.4.3) Gecko/20040924 Description of problem: The RHEL4_BETA2 kernel 2.6.9 is the first kernel without the pwc module from Nemosoft. This is correct but a kernel without a pwc module is bad. Please see: http://lwn.net/Articles/108005/?format=printable Patch: Linux 2.6.9-ac4 From: Alan Cox <alan.org.uk> To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel.org> Subject: Linux 2.6.9-ac4 Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 19:08:07 +0100 -> 2.6.9-ac1 Functionality o Restore PWC driver (Luc Saillard) The new opensource PWC driver is available and it would be good to have this new driver in RHEL4_BETA... and also in final RHEL4 kernel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-1.648_EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL4_BETA2 2. 3. Actual Results: no pwc module, Philips webcam does not work Expected Results: include new opensource pwc module Additional info:
Internal RFE bug #140101 entered; will be considered for future releases.
should be fixed in next build.
Fix confirmed in latest kernel. Closing out.