Tony Incidentally, the reason why USB device IDs are far more important than the make and model number is because one Linux kernel driver could support a number of devices with different USB IDs - that's why searching on the USB ID is usually the best and quickest way to find out the supported status.
Peter On 15 July 2012 22:41, Peter Andrijeczko <peter.andrijec...@gmail.com>wrote: > Tony > > I've Googled the DVR model number you gave for Linux support and came to > this page, but note that it's 18 months old: > > > http://catontech.com/blog/2011/01/04/using-the-olympus-digital-voice-recorder-with-linux/ > > > Note the Google link for the odvr project, but if you go there even that > is three years out of date now due to the lead developer's DVR dying a > while ago. > > However. it may well be that the DVR is supported in a later Linux kernel, > the USB IDs will really help in determining that. > > Peter > > > On 15 July 2012 22:34, Peter Andrijeczko <peter.andrijec...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> 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.* >> > > > > -- > *Proudly not supporting Apple since 1962.* > -- *Proudly not supporting Apple since 1962.*
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