[PLUG] Mounting digital voice recorder

[John Jason Jordan]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:16:27 -0700
"drew wymore" <drew.wymore at gmail.com> dijo:

> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 8:08 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:34:44 -0700
> > "drew wymore" <drew.wymore at gmail.com> dijo:
> >
> > > > It's an Olympus VN4100PC. Ubuntu sees it, but does not automount it
> > and I
> > > > can't figure out how to mount it manually.
> > > >
> > > > jjj at Devil7:~$ dmesg |tail
> > > > [21583.078610] usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and
> > > > address 3
> > > > [21583.104052] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> > > > <extraneous stuff deleted>
> > > >
> > > > jjj at Devil7:~$ lsusb
> > > > Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > > > Bus 006 Device 004: ID 04b3:4485 IBM Corp.
> > > > Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > > > Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics
> > Fingerprint
> > > > Reader
> > > > Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0a5c:2110 Broadcom Corp.
> > > > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > > > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > > > Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > > > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > > > Bus 002 Device 003: ID 07b4:020d Olympus Optical Co., Ltd Digital
> > Voice
> > > > Recorder VN-240PC
> > > > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > > >
> > > > I've googled and haven't found any solutions. Any ideas on how to
> > mount
> > > > the thing?
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> > > It looks like its not supported
> > >
> > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=137369
> > >
> > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=2161&cat=all
> > >
> > > I notice you snipped the output from dmesg. Did it give you a /dev entry
> > > like /dev/sdb1  or anything?
> >
> > No, it didn't give me anything like /dev - anything.
> >
> > However, after ten pages of Google hits I finally came upon this:
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/odvr/
> >
> > And happily there is an amd-64 .deb, which installed just fine.
> > Unfortunately, I cannot for the life of me find any documentation that
> > says what ODVR is supposed to do or how to use it. There is no man
> > page. With the recorder plugged in I get:
> >
> > jjj at Devil7:~$ odvr
> > Model: 4100PC
> >
> > That's really grand. I already knew it was a 4100PC. I unplugged it and
> > plugged it back in, but still no automount, and dmesg / lsusb still say
> > the same things.
> >
> > Any ideas how to use it?

> I would assume you'll need to modprobe the driver into the running kernel
> 
> /sbin/modprobe odvr or /sbin/insmod odvr
> 
> then plug the device in

Doesn't seem to be a module. I just get "Module odvr not found." But it
might be called something else. When I do "locate odvr" I get nothing. 

I just e-mailed the developer. We'll see if he can tell me what to do.