Yesterday I picked up my camera ( http://www.ebay.de/itm/390641740206 ) from the post office. I powered off my Raspberry, plugged in the little webcam guy and powered up again. Then I checked my camera: pi@raspberrypi:~$ dmesg | grep -i vid [ 0.028498] mailbox: Broadcom VideoCore Mailbox driver [ 1.329416] vc-cma: Videocore CMA driver [ 6.182242] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 [ 6.628217] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 Camera (1e4e:0110) [ 7.120691] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo [ 7.128191] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1) pi@raspberrypi:~$ dmesg | grep input [ 6.890757] input: USB2.0 Camera as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/input/input0 Everything seems fine. Installed fswebcam: sudo apt-get install fswebcam First testpicture: fswebcam -v -r "640×480" /home/$USER/t.jpg Installing...