Which camera to dashboard program are you using?
The "Camera to Dashboard" example program does not work to my knowledge. Either build the "FRC 2010 Vision Demonstration" program, or add this to your robot's main code:
Code:
AxisCamera &camera = AxisCamera::getInstance();
camera.writeResolution(k320x240);
camera.writeBrightness(0);
You will have to also do:
Code:
#include "Vision/AxisCamera2010.h"
If you do this and your camera still does not send an image to the laptop, then it is definitely not a programming problem.