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Comment 14 for bug 219252

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Andres Mujica (andres.mujica) wrote :

Hi, it seems that the r5u870 module works up to 2.6.24

So there's an alternate procedure to make it work, it consists on loading the firmware and using it with the uvcvideo driver.

http://www.bitbucket.org/ahixon/r5u87x/

Follow this post:

http://ubuntu-virginia.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6111718&postcount=9

or here:

http://lists.mediati.org/archives/r5u870-list/2008-September/000053.html

please note that it's not the ideal solution, this should be handled by hal (probably) but in the meantime would work for you.