On 4 May 2002, Nick Texidor wrote:
> Well I've finally got my powerbook up and running with 8.2.. great job > Stew, thanks! > thank-you! > I had a couple of issues with the install that got me into a fine old > mess.... i.e. the problem with configuring ethernet, airport and modem, > and choosing the option to start an internet connection on boot... it > would lock up indefinately. So I would kill the laptop, then restart > it hoping i could go through in Interactive mode and not start the > Internet and Network services.. however the start up decided that the > disk was not dismounted cleanly and it would do a check... which seemed > to cancel out the 'I' that I had pressed to go into Interactive mode. > So I ended up in a continual loop I couldn't get out of. If I was more > experienved I may have been able to do something, but ended up > reinstalling! > Yeah - that whole "start internet connection at boot" seems fubarred. > One thing I am having troubles with is getting my digital camera to > work. I can plug it in and usbview correctly identifies the camera as a > Kodak DC290... but where do I go from here?? gphoto doesn't support > this camera, and I seem to recall a Kamera option in Control Panel under > x86 8.1, but it's not in 8.2 on x86 or PPC. So how do I get the > photo's off the camera? I tried the command like gphoto2 but couldn't > get that to list the folders or images. Any help would be appreciated. > I played briefly with ghoto2 and my Sanyo camera, with a USB-serial adapter. I didn't try listings, but I was able to pull individual pics off of it, although it was picky about what baud rate I used. Although the camera is supported in gphoto, it doesn't seem to want to do the usb-serial hookup, and neither one of my laptops have serial ports now. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
