Tony The trick with USB (or indeed any device) is to work out whether there's a supported driver for it, either in the kernel or as a third party one.
Since you've said that a USB memory stick works okay, then it's fairly safe to assume that the correct chipset drivers are being loaded by Ubuntu for your netbook - therefore it's a case of finding a driver for the Olympus DVR. One of the quickest ways to start finding out is to get the device USB vendor and device ID from the system using the "lsusb" command. Run it from the command line without the DVR plugged in, then plug in the DVR and run it again, noting any differences. Hopefully there's just one additional line that will point to the ID of the DVR. Here's a sample output of lsusb from one of my PCs, I use Gentoo Linux, not Ubuntu, but hopefully you should see something fairly similar: Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub Bus 001 Device 005: ID 14cd:8168 Super Top Bus 002 Device 006: ID 041e:403a Creative Technology, Ltd Webcam NX Pro 2 Bus 002 Device 005: ID 045e:00dd Microsoft Corp. Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000 V1.0 Bus 002 Device 007: ID 045e:00d1 Microsoft Corp. Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel The important numbers are the two sets of 4 hex digits after ID that are separated by a colon which are the vendor and device IDs. e.g. 045e:00dd for my Microsoft Curve Keyboard. The trick now is to just to a Google Search with "Linux kernel driver 045e 00dd" and just see what info you can get from there. I use Ubuntu very little so don't know what they do with the kernel but I suspect that most drivers in their kernel are built as modules so that the appropriate ones are loaded for the detected hardware - but it could well be that due to conflicts or support only through "Staging Drivers" that some modules might not be available without recompiling the kernel, or maybe you just need a later kernel. But once you establish whether or not the DVR is supported, then that should lead you on to what needs to be done next. If you do want to send me the device IDs for the DVR then I will see what I can find out - also let me know what kernel version you are running from "uname -a" on the command line. Regards Peter On 14 July 2012 20:30, Tim Brocklehurst <t...@engineering.selfip.org> wrote: > On Saturday 14 Jul 2012 19:12:53 Tony Wood wrote: > > The only thing I can't get to work with my Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) netbook > > (or Ubuntu 12.04 PC) is my Olympus VN-2100PC digital voice recorder. > > > > This netbook still has a Windows 7 partition. I have to download my > > recorded interviews in W7, load the files onto a memory stick, then > > reboot into Ubuntu and transfer them. > > > > In Linux Terminal I tried: ls usb -v but the device is not even > found. > > > > I'd like to remove the W7 partition altogether but want to be able to > > use the Olympus DVR (a present from my wife.) > > > > Has anyone found a Linux way to download sound files from a VN2100PC > > please? > > What does dmesg give you when the device is plugged/unplugged? It's unusual > that an audio device doesn't just appear as mass storage. > > Tim B. > > -- > Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk > Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire > LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk > -------------------------------------------------------------- > -- *Proudly not supporting Apple since 1962.*
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