Old webcam Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate STX not working in Ubuntu 9.04

vlc, mplayer, kdenlive are not able to open my webcam(/dev/video), while aMSN is able to. I have the following webcam:
ID 046d:08ad Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Communicate STX
It seems that Ubuntu recently switched from V4L to V4L2 causing some trouble with some devices. Fortunately there is a solution:
sudo apt-get install ld.so.preload-manager
sudo ld.so.preload-manager /usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
alternatively (note the lib32. You [...]

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For some time now I experience problems with my Atherios Wireless NIC in combination with NetworkManager. For quite some time now, it’s possible for me to connect to a normal Wireless Access Point. Now I have an iPhone and want to use PDANet to connect a Laptop to the Internet using the iPhone 3G fast [...]

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