Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-16 Thread Sharrea
On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 16:26, g wrote: Sharrea wrote: I would think that to use vfat you would have to make the mountpoint on a partition that is formatted vfat. not true. one of many beauties of linux and unix is that you can mount just anything any where, as long as you have drivers set

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-16 Thread et
On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:18 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:09, robin wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: you may need to modprobe usb-storage (i have to for my digital camera since the memory card on it is seen as usb mass storage device). I don't know much about digital

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-16 Thread John Richard Smith
robin wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Is this a relatively new camera ? About a year old. I know people have got it working under Linux via firewire; it's USB that's tricky. Sir Robin I'm purly guessing here , but I suspect your camera , like mine, is not vfat, and the trouble is

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-16 Thread robin
et wrote: On Saturday 15 February 2003 09:18 pm, Sharrea wrote: On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 08:09, robin wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: you may need to modprobe usb-storage (i have to for my digital camera since the memory card on it is seen as usb mass storage device). I don't know much about digital

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-16 Thread robin
John Richard Smith wrote: robin wrote: John Richard Smith wrote: Is this a relatively new camera ? About a year old. I know people have got it working under Linux via firewire; it's USB that's tricky. Sir Robin I'm purly guessing here , but I suspect your camera , like mine, is not

[newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread robin
I'm trying to mount a Sony TRV340E video camera via USB. I'm not worried about video (my hardware isn't realy up to anyway) but I would like to be able to get at the stills in the memory chip. The USB modules seem to be working fine: lsmod gives usb-uhci 21676 0 (unused)

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread John Richard Smith
robin wrote: I'm trying to mount a Sony TRV340E video camera via USB. I'm not worried about video (my hardware isn't realy up to anyway) but I would like to be able to get at the stills in the memory chip. The USB modules seem to be working fine: lsmod gives usb-uhci 21676 0

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread Jerry Barton
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:41:26 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to mount a Sony TRV340E video camera via USB. I'm not worried about video (my hardware isn't realy up to anyway) but I would like to be able to get at the stills in the memory chip. The USB modules seem to be

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread robin
Jerry Barton wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:41:26 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to mount a Sony TRV340E video camera via USB. I'm not worried about video (my hardware isn't realy up to anyway) but I would like to be able to get at the stills in the memory chip. The USB

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread Dennis Myers
On Saturday 15 February 2003 11:41 am, robin wrote: I'm trying to mount a Sony TRV340E video camera via USB. I'm not worried about video (my hardware isn't realy up to anyway) but I would like to be able to get at the stills in the memory chip. The USB modules seem to be working fine: lsmod

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread John Richard Smith
robin wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:41:26 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to mount a Sony TRV340E video camera via USB. I'm not worried about video (my hardware isn't realy up to anyway) but I would like to be able to get at the stills in the memory

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread robin
John Richard Smith wrote: robin wrote: Jerry Barton wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 19:41:26 +0200 robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to mount a Sony TRV340E video camera via USB. I'm not worried about video (my hardware isn't realy up to anyway) but I would like to be able to get at

Re: [newbie] Another possibly dumb USB question

2003-02-15 Thread g
Sharrea wrote: I would think that to use vfat you would have to make the mountpoint on a partition that is formatted vfat. not true. one of many beauties of linux and unix is that you can mount just anything any where, as long as you have drivers set up for what you are mounting. unlike oos,