I'm trying to get my Canon A620 camera to work with gphoto2 under FreeBSD.
dmesg is telling me that my camera is /dev/ugen0.
[osiris temp] gphoto2 --list-ports
Devices found:
2
Path Description
--
ptpip:
You should try to mount your camera manually first as
su -
password
mount_msdosfs /dev/ugen0 /mnt
If you can not read the camera only then you should use gphoto2 but
logged as a supper user to avoid
permission problems. If that fails i.e. if you get the message BLOCK
DEVICE RECUIRED you
should
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 09:35:49PM -0700, Erin McNew wrote:
> *** Error ***
> An error occurred in the io-library ('I/O problem'): Failed to open
> '/dev/ugen0' (m).
> *** Error (-7: 'I/O problem') ***
I have a Nikon Coolpix 4500, and found following through Google:
--
To have the rights to d
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 11:46:55PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote:
>
> Note you might not need to go to PTP mode for your particular camera!
Actually, if you just issue "gphoto2 --list-cameras", you will see:
"Canon PowerShot A620 (PTP mode)"
..so PTP should work.
>
> If that fail then you ca
Thank you for the suggestions. I did try mounting the camera, but since I
had to use gphoto2 in linux, I figured I'd probably need to do so in freebsd
as well. It gave me the message saying it required a block device.
I do not quite know what you mean about switching my camera to PTP mode. I
di
Eric,
Some cameras can be mounted without any software on FreeBSD. Yours is
not one of those so be it.
No we are going to use gPhoto2.
If you play (ON THE MENU OF CAMERA) with the options on YOUR CAMERA in
particular options for USB connector you will see that the following
options likely wil
