Blog2013 ≫ Boo possibly just trashed my raspberry pi again

All I did was tried to put a webcam on it!

pi@[raspberrypi](/wiki/#raspberry/pi) ~ $ lsusb
[Bus](/wiki/#bus) 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 [Linux](/wiki/#linux) Foundation 2.0 root hub
[Bus](/wiki/#bus) 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 Standard Microsystems Corp. 
[Bus](/wiki/#bus) 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. 
[Bus](/wiki/#bus) 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:8176 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8188CUS 802.11n WLAN Adapter
[Bus](/wiki/#bus) 001 Device 005: ID 046d:08af [Logitech](/wiki/#logitech), Inc. QuickCam Easy/Cool
pi@[raspberrypi](/wiki/#raspberry/pi) ~ $ sudo apt-get install fswebcam
[Reading](/wiki/#reading) package lists... Done
[Building](/wiki/#bus) dependency [tree](/wiki/#family/tree)
[Reading](/wiki/#reading) state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fswebcam
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 136 not upgraded.
Need to get 52.3 kB of archives.
After this [operation](/wiki/#operation), 141 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ wheezy/main fswebcam armhf 20110717-1 [52.3 kB]
Fetched 52.3 kB in 0s (95.4 kB/s)

and then nothing after that, bah... at least I have a backup of all my source code, but I have lost some data. I've been logging home energy usage on it for a few weeks and have not backed that up. Annoying, but not important.

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