No camera on MacBook?

the preferences in my iChat says there is no camera attached to my computer. there is! i've used it just yesterday. where is my camera????

HI Cwe,
Go to the Apple icon top left.
Select About this Mac
In the pop Up select More Info
Open the reveal triangles in the System Profiler that got opened to Hardware > USB and see if the camera is listed.
If it does not show up do this...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319
7:39 PM Wednesday; October 31, 2007

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