These are the tools to extract the iSight firmware. Once you've built and installed isight-firmware tools, use ift-extract to grab the firmware from the Apple driver and put it in /lib/firmware. Note: You must be logged in as root to do this! On my MacBook running Mavericks, the command is: ift-extract -a /macdrive/System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBVideoSupport.kext/Contents/MacOS/AppleUSBVideoSupport Once that's done, you should have the file: /lib/firmware/isight.fw If so, reboot and you're in business. (I'm not sure you hafta reboot, but it can't hurt!) For other MacOS versions, just mount your Mac HFS+ partition something like: mount /dev/sda2 /macdrive (Note: For this, the directory /macdrive must exist!) To locate the Mac partition, use: fdisk -l /dev/sda . . . the MacOS partition should look something like: /dev/sda2 409640 724306927 361948644 af HFS / HFS+ Once the Mac OS partition is mounted, you can locate the Apple iSight driver using: find /macdrive -iname AppleUSBVideoSupport Yet another note: I'm using the huge kernel, which has the HFS filesystem driver. I don't know if it's included with the generic kernels or not.