On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 10:16 pm, Peter Watson wrote: > On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 14:11, Todd Slater wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:01:06AM -0500, Dennis & Sue wrote: > > > I have an unsupported HP 315 photosmart camera, ( usb ). > > > Usbview finds it, and correctly identifies it. Etc/Hotplug knows about > > > it as well. > > > Gphoto has no driver for it, cannot make it work. > > > It seems to me that I should be able to mount it as a filesystem ? of > > > some kind / type, virtua,l removeable, or scsi, and access it as such. > > > Does anyone know of a way, or a site that might offer this possibility > > > ? My cd burner is set up as sco ( I don't know if this matters ). > > > > I could never get my Fuji Finepix 4700 to work with Gphoto, but my 8.1 > > and up systems always knew the camera was there. > > > > When I set it up in 8.1, I connected the camera and turned it on as if I > > were going to transfer files. I then ran MCC and in the > > hardware/mount points section, it recognized the camera there as well. I > > just clicked it and gave it a mount point. After that, I could mount it > > without any problem. I don't know if that will work in 9.0. The > > important thing would be to see which device it is, probably /dev/sdb1. > > > > The line in my fstab is: > > /dev/sdb1 /mnt/fuji vfat user 0 0 > > > > I type mount /mnt/fuji, and I can copy all the files from there. > > > > I would say your chances are good since the system knows it's there. But > > then again, I wouldn't be surprised if I were totally wrong! > > > > Todd > > My Fuji FinePix 2600 is not supported by Gphoto but it works fine under > LM9.0 as a mass storage device. it comes up automagically as /dev/sda1. > You need module usb-storage loaded, I added it to /etc/modules, and a mount > point created, mine is /mnt/camera. also a line similar to above in > /etc/fstab then just plug in, type mount /dev/sda1 > and there it is.
Going over all the posts on this subject, I came back to this one. What exactly did you add to /etc/modules? I still haven't got the camera assigned a sdx device node, so I guess I don't stand much of a chance. Anne
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