Oh, that's right. the webcam.sh is supposed to be above the dir webcam.
Sorry guys

Hei guys, I was following "Using a standard USB webcam" - https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/usage/webcams/README.md . When editing crontab script: * * * * * /home/pi/webcam.sh 2>&1 should be * * * * * /home/pi/webcam/webcam.sh 2>&1 I didn't know where to submit this so I post it here. Thanks.

fruitoftheloom wrote: You do realise the post you are replying to is 8 months old

Oh am I not supposed to answer a question that is older than certain amount of time?
I answered because I had the same issue and it took me 6 hours to solve it.
So I just wanted to help others with the same issue

@cyrano: I don't know how you can broadcast ping or fling your pi which is attached to your laptop through the ethernet. However, you can still find the ip address of pi by following command: netstat -rn -finet This shows your network status. Screen Shot 2015-02-25 at 4.29.27 PM.png You can configur...

I succeeded doing it from Ubuntu with the following command:
Note: I have attached an Wolfson soundcard but you can change the parameters as you wish.