[PLUG] USB digital camera

[Fedor G. Pikus]

You need to load usbstorage module if it does not load by itself
when you plug in the camera, try "modprobe usbstorage".
If it works, look at /proc/scsi/scsi file, your camera will appear
as one of SCSI devices (so it'll show up as /dev/sda if you don't have any
other SCSI devices). If the module does not load, or cannot be found, your
kernel does not have the USB support compiled in and configured properly.

Also, if the camera uses compactflash, you can just get a USB reader for
flash and not mess with getting camera supported (I never got my Vivitar
camera working with USB, it starts giving SCSI resets which never stop,
but the flash from it can be read in the card reader just fine).

On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Robert Kopp wrote:
> I have an Olympus D-100 digital camera which, although
> apparently not included in gphoto, can be mounted as a
> storage device some other way. This camera is popular
> and has many favorable reviews.
>
>  "(Even works on linux with a little kernel tweak: in
> drivers/usb/storage/transport.h, search from "x53" and
> change it to "x55". Make sure you have the usb storage
> module installed, and then 'mount /dev/sda1 /mnt'.)"
>
> Comments: where is the file drivers/usb/...etc.? Do I
> have the USB storage module installed? How can I find
> out? If the device likes to call itself /dev/sda1, I
> suppose that mounting it should be no problem.
>
> From the typical consumer's point of view, access to
> digital cameras may be an important factor in the
> acceptance of Linux. If digital photography is
> important to a person, it might be the only reason why
> they need a native Windows partition, unless their
> digital camera can be accessed under Linux. It may not
> be realistic to expect 100% of digital cameras to be
> supported under Linux, but there should be enough of a
> choice that optical qualities can be the most
> important factor when deciding which digital camera to get.
>
> =====
> Robert "Tim" Kopp
> http://analytic.tripod.com/
>
> "SAMBA--opening Windows to a wider world."
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