eeePC 900 && video cam CNF7129 0x04f2:0xb071

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Monday 21 July 2008, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've installed FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE (CVS: HEAD) on my Asus eeePC 900;
> details can be seen here:
>
> http://www.unixarea.de/installEeePC.txt
>
> the (deleted) Xandros Linux saw the on board video cam with these messages:
>
> [   11.540000] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
> [   11.560000] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device CNF7129 (04f2:b071)
> [   11.690000] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
> [   11.690000] USB Video Class driver (SVN r2008.02.27)
>
> and it worked nicely, I did some tests before scribbling the SSD with
> FreeBSD;
>
> are there any plans or works for supporting this card?
>
> thx in advance
>
>         matthias

There is a summer of Code project over at NetBSD supporting the UVC USB class.

--HPS