Adrian wrote: > On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 16:44:00 +0200 > "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > the words: > > >> On Saturday 02 September 2006 16:20, Adrian wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 2 Sep 2006 10:05:43 +0100 >>> >>> Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote the words: >>> >>>> On Saturday 02 September 2006 08:06, sdoma wrote: >>>> >>>>> Why not set up your camera to act as a USB disk? >>>>> I do it this way and use the very special tools like ``mount'', >>>>> ``ls'' and ``cp'' ;o))))))))))))) >>>>> >>>> I second this. Just set something like: >>>> ================================================= >>>> /dev/sda /mnt/sda auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime 0 0 >>>> /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 auto,vfat,msdos noauto,user,noatime 0 0 >>>> ================================================= >>>> depending on what your camera's flash memory is recognised as >>>> (look in your dmesg output when you plug it in) and then use ls, >>>> or your file manager to look at and manipulate its contents. If >>>> you have hald it should be picked up automatically without you >>>> having to create the /mnt/sda directory or manually mount/umount >>>> the device. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Regards, >>>> Mick >>>> >>> Actually, this was the first thing I tried. I can not convince the >>> camera to mount however. >>> >>> All I get from dmesg is: >>> >>> usb 4-2: USB disconnect, address 5 >>> usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6 >>> >>> >>> I tried your suggestions in my fstab and all I get is: >>> >>> mount: special device /dev/sda does not exist >>> or >>> mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist >>> >>> depending on which /dev/sda* I use in fstab. >>> >>> >> and you have usb-storage and scsi-disk support at least as modules >> and modprobed them? >> -- >> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> >> >> > I have usb-storage as a module, and have confirmed it is loaded with > lsmod. > > scsi-disk support is build in to my kernel. > > I can plug in a usb storage device and it works fine. example: > > ------------------ > > scsi9 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices > usb-storage: device found at 17 > usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning > Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST660211USB Rev: 4.06 > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > SCSI device sda: 11719008 512-byte hdwr sectors (6000 MB) > sda: Write Protect is off > sda: Mode Sense: 73 00 00 08 > sda: assuming drive cache: write through > SCSI device sda: 11719008 512-byte hdwr sectors (6000 MB) > sda: Write Protect is off > sda: Mode Sense: 73 00 00 08 > sda: assuming drive cache: write through > sda: sda1 > Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi9, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > usb-storage: device scan complete > > -------------------------- > > Maybe either > > a. this camera simply isn't linux compatible > > b. I need some other module for it > > > > > >
Well, I have a Canon camera and mine will not work like that either. I use gtkam to get my pictures and it works fine. May want to try that. I did run into permission problems at first. May want to try it as root if running it as user fails. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
