Digital cams & Linux

[joel]

drat... I was hoping it would just magically work... ;-)

The unknown device error message indicates that either a driver isn't 
available, or that we're trying to access it at the wrong place. Either way, 
we'll need to get a little bit of additional information to make it work. 

Could you please post your version information, the device information when 
the camera is plugged in and turned on, and your list of loaded modules? 
(more information than that may be needed later, but this should be a good 
start...)

cat /proc/version /proc/bus/usb/devices > systeminfo
/sbin/lsmod >> systeminfo

... then post the contents of systeminfo.

--Joel

btw, sorry for being unresponsive for a bit there, I was soaking up the 
Christmas cheer! ;-)

On Monday 24 December 2001 07:44 am, Rodney Kanno wrote:
> Well lady luck must not be on my side this holiday season..although now I
> do get a different error message:
>
> mount: /dev/sda1: unknown device
>
> Just for the heck of it, I went through all sda entries, same result.
>
> Rodney
>
>
> On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 21:36:05 -1000
>
> joel <jijoel at lava.net> wrote:
> > > Well I did everything as you said and when trying to mount I get an
> > > error message saying "mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist"
> > > So I guess it may not work?
> >
> > It might not, though it may just require some deep voodoo magic. ;-)
> >
> > The 'special device * does not exist' error occurs because you don't have
> > a device entry defined in /dev. We'll fix that by creating a few. Try
> > this (as root):
> >
> > mknod --mode=660 /dev/sda b 8 0
> > mknod --mode=660 /dev/sda1 b 8 1
> > mknod --mode=660 /dev/sda2 b 8 2
> > mknod --mode=660 /dev/sda3 b 8 3
> > mknod --mode=660 /dev/sda4 b 8 4
> >
> > ... that should probably be enough. /dev/sda is the first SCSI disk;
> > /dev/sda1 is its first partition; /dev/sda2 is its second, and so on. The
> > usb-storage module makes a USB device look like an SCSI device to the
> > computer. I'm assuming that the node numbers will be the same on your
> > machine that they are on my machines...
> >
> > Then:
> >
> > chgrp disk /dev/sda*    # so you can read the device without being root
> >
> > Plug in the camera, turn it on, and as a normal user, type:
> >
> > mount /mnt/pix
> >
> > ...and keep your fingers crossed! ;-)
> >
> > --Joel
> >
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