It adds a bit to my understanding of what ift-extract and ift-load actually do. BTW the Suyin webcam operates just fine under the live CD version of Intrepid and Cheese Webcam Booth.
#Download isight driver for mac how to#
So in summary, my problem is how to download the correct version of 'Isight- firmware- tools", and how to get it to extractisight.fw and load the modified vendor and product data back into the AppleUSBVideoSu pport driver. So I'm very frustrated by my poor understanding of navigating through the complexities of the Ubuntu system. 6" from Etienne's site, hoping to get this program to work by extracting the isight.fw firmware from AppleUSBVideoSu pport. After more fruitless efforts, I downloaded "Isight- firmware- tools_1. I gather the "IFT" program is archived and not so easily downloaded by the apt-get install command. Then I followed the instructions contained in "How to fix webcam on Macbook Pro 5,5" from Ask Ubuntu, but could not get past the second line ".sudo apt-get install isight- firmware- tools". I was easily able to transfer the AppleUSBVideoSu pport driver from the Snow Leopard drive to the Ubuntu Desktop.
So I installed the live CD version of Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex on to the computer fitted with the Suyin webcam. This would allow me to change the vendor and product ID's to 0圆4e:0xC108 to match the Suyin webcam, and insert the edited isight.fw information back into the AppleUSBVideoSu pport driver. On the second machine, its Suyin 0圆4e:0xC108 webcam is not supported by the drivers installed with Snow Leopard, and my research has led me to believe that Etienne Bersac's "Isight- firmware- tools" program can extract the isight.fw file from AppleUSBVideoSu pport. On the first machine, the Chicony CNF7041 camera works just fine in PhotoBooth and Skype. Thebuilt-in webcams installed on these 2 machines are different. I have two HP Compaq Presario C700 laptops operating under Mac OS 10.6.8, Snow Leopard.