On 4/23/10 5:52 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I have a Linksys WVC54GCA camera running under Fedora-12.
This camera can be connected under Ethernet or WiFi.
The theory is that you connect it under Ethernet
and set it up, and it then runs under WiFi.
I find that while it works for one dhcpd lease
(or possibly two leases) it seems always to fail then.
What does that mean? It's only going to have one lease at a time.
If you use DHCP you really need have it set up with a static address.
As I want to run it at a remote site (in another country)
this is not much use.
I don't see anything in /var/log/messages to explain this.
The camera does not seem to ask for renewal of its lease.
Assuming that this is something to do with the camera,
I wonder if anyone has advice on a suitable WiFi camera
for this purpose?
I guess I'd prefer a tilt and shift camera,
if such is available for a reasonable sum.
If anyone has experience of running such a camera
under Fedora or CentOS I should very much like to hear
your experience.
One thing is make sure to upgrade the firmware. I have the same model
and before I updated the firmware it would hang after 1-2 days. I'm not
sure about it now but it might be staying up for 1-2 weeks. It might
not be hanging up, I haven't checked it out thoroughly yet.
I can't recall if I've ever accessed this camera from Fedora. I can
access it from Mac OS, Debian, UBuntu and WinXP.