On Friday 11 March 2005 07:59 am, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Mr. Geek wrote: > > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >> Mr. Geek wrote: > >>> Hey Gang. I'm curious to know how I can go about detecting my digital > >>> camera (See Subject above) which is connected to one of my USB 2.0 > >>> ports. Mandrake sees the USB ports but not the camera. > >>> > >>> Digikam and GPhoto seem to be able to work with this camera (It's > >>> listed in their respective camera lists, but since it's not being > >>> seen on the USB port, nothing is able to connect to the camera. > >>> > >>> If it helps, Hotplug is installed and running, and my USB mouse has > >>> been running for months without a hitch. > >>> > >>> What's the best way to mount a USB device, in which standard folder, > >>> and other than the standard USB Kernel modules, is there anything > >>> else needed? > >>> > >>> FYI, I'm running Mandrake 10.1, kernel 2.6.8.1-12mdk. > >> > >> Are you sure it is not being seen? I have not looked up the camera, > >> but most newer cameras show up as a storage device. Hotplug may have > >> already mounted it as /mnt/camera or /mnt/removable. > >> > >> What does the output of lsusb show? > >> > >> Mikkel > > > > Mikkel; Thanks for getting back to me. Here's the output from lsusb; > > > > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Logitech Corp. Optical Mouse > > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > > > > I tried the mouse on some of the other USB ports and it came back > > without a hitch on those ports as well. > > > > Would I have to activate anything on the camera to enable USB > > connections? That's about the only other thing that would make any > > sense, unless the USB cable is bad, but the camera is only a few months > > old, and was working on some Windows PC's without any problems, even > > with this USB cable. > > > > > > Thanks for any help you can offer. > > I guess it is possible that you have to turn the camera on, but I do not > think so. (Unless you had to do that for it to be detected in Windows.) > I would double check the cable connections, and if you can, try a > different cable. Even if Linux didn't identify the camera properly, it > should still show up in the output of lsusb. Here is the output on my > system with two unsupported cameras. > > Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05cb:1483 PowerVision Technologies, Inc. Trust > CombiScan 19200 > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1046:9967 Winbond Electronics Corp. [hex] > W9967CF/W9968CF WebCam IC > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > > Mikkel The Camera has to be on so that the usb port on the camera is active
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