Using digital camera as webcam

Question

Well, it'd be nice to use my digital camera as a webcam under linux(I can do it under windows). The camera is a Nova DC-2L (finding info for it is a bitch). Well I'm wondering on how to get it working as a webcam under linux..
Under windows all I gotta do is set the cam to webcam mode on the camera then plug it in, and it's good to go from there..
Well I dunno what driver the camera uses as a webcam so I guessed qc-usb as it seemed to be the only one listed on the wiki page
sorta preEDIT: Ok as I was about to post the device info I seen that Zoran is what it came up as, so I looked it up and the module for it is zr36067, but when I try to modprobe it I get:
FATAL: Error inserting zr36067 (/lib/modules/2.6.9-ARCH/kernel/drivers/media/video/zr36067.ko): No such device
any ideas?
proc entry:
D:  Ver= 1.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0595 ProdID=4343 Rev= 1.00
S:  Manufacturer=ZORAN
S:  Product=DIGICAM
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=(none)
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms

Answer 1

First of all, use udev. devfs is mostly useless if you want to use USB.
in udev rules, you need something like:
#camera
KERNEL="sda*" SYMLINK="camera%n"
KERNEL="video[0-9]" SYMLINK ="video%n"
I dont like a zillion groups, so I change my permissions,
sd*:root:users:660
#camera devices
camera*:root:users:0600
usb/dc2xx*:root:users:0600
usb/mdc800*:root:uesrs:0600
The problem with devfs prevented me from using my camera as a webcam and mounted storage device without restarting devfs and fiddling with the mounting of usbfs or whatever it was called.
cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
should tell you what is being seen on the bus.