IMX477 camera driver installation fails on Jetson Orin Nano with missing deb package error

Nvidia Jetson Cameras
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Hey all, I’m trying to get an IMX477 camera (model BO249) working on my Jetson Orin Nano, but I can’t even get past the driver installation script. Running it gives me this:

Cannot find the corresponding deb package, please send the following information to [email protected]

Here’s what I’m working with:

  • Kernel: 5.15.148-tegra-36.4.3-20250107174145
  • Jetson: NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

Any ideas what’s going wrong?

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Quick update — I re-downloaded and re-ran the installation, and weirdly the deb package error is gone now. But when I run install_full.sh I’m getting these warnings:

ls: cannot access 'nv_imx477.ko.bak': No such file or directory
Setting up arducam-nvidia-l4t-kernel (5.15.148-tegra-36.4.3-20250205154643) ...
mv: cannot stat '/boot/arducam/arducam_csi2.ko': No such file or directory

Are these something I need to fix, or can I just ignore them and move on?

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Those are totally benign — you can safely ignore them.

What’s happening is the install_full.sh script tries to back up any existing kernel module files before installing the new ones. The files it’s looking for (nv_imx477.ko.bak and arducam_csi2.ko) simply don’t exist yet because this is a clean first-time install — there’s nothing to back up. So the mv and ls commands complain, but it has zero impact on the actual driver installation.

No corrective action needed. Go ahead and proceed with testing the camera stream.

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Alright, I went ahead and tried testing the camera but it’s just not showing up at all.

$ ls /dev/video*
ls: cannot access '/dev/video*': No such file or directory

Nothing there. And when I run the gstreamer pipeline from the quick start guide, it just comes back with “No cameras found.”

The driver install completed (aside from those warnings), so I’m kind of stuck on what to check next.

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When the driver installs without errors but /dev/video* is empty and gstreamer can’t find any cameras, the next thing to rule out is the physical hardware connection.

Could you post a couple of photos of your setup? Specifically:

  1. One shot from the camera end — showing how the ribbon cable is connected to the camera module
  2. One shot from the Jetson end — showing how the ribbon cable is seated in the CSI connector on the board

This will help verify the cable orientation and whether it’s fully inserted on both sides.

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Sure, let me get those uploaded. For now here’s what I can describe:

  • The cable is a blue and white 22-pin to 22-pin ribbon cable
  • On the camera side, the metal contacts are facing upward (away from the camera PCB)
  • On the Jetson side, the metal contacts are facing downward (toward the board)

I’ll post the actual photos shortly.

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Here are the photos:

Camera end:

IMG_0305

Jetson end:

IMG_0306

Let me know if you spot anything wrong with the connections.

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Thanks for sending those through. Let me take a close look at the photos and I’ll get back to you with what I find.