mychl
05-03-2002, 04:26 PM
I went out and bought a nice digital camera, got a 128Mb mem card to go with it too.
I looked around and qtKam, gimp, Kamera for support for the camera itself... no luck.
So I went out and got the Sony Memory Card Reader... I plugged it in, and my RH 7.3 system assigned the USB-Storage driver to it.
So here's what I did you be able to access the data on the card....
edit /etc/fstab and added an entry like this:
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
Then I determined via dmesg and /proc/bus/usb/devices that this was somehow getting mapped to a SCSI device.
So I added another line to my /etc/fstab file like this.
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sony auto noauto 0 0
And of course made the /mnt/sony directory.
Then I did mount /mnt/sony and there it was... NICE!!
Now I can use my digital camera to put pics on my linux system...
I must say that USB support has come a long way. I have my web cam working, and my card reader working.... never had usb in linux before!
The only problem I have is that I cannot get a user to be able to mount the filesystem. I think it is becuase USB being hotplugable will assign different device numbers to the same hardware, which makes it hard to change permissions of it. I've 777ed the /mnt/sony and the /dev/sda1 to no avail, I still get that only root can mount this.
Next on my list.... to get my lexmark z52 to print as a smb printer while connected to my girls 98 machine. I got it to print, but it's all gibberish....
Notice the multimedia theme here... any questions.... let me know.
And please tell of similar circumstances or achievments...
:p
I looked around and qtKam, gimp, Kamera for support for the camera itself... no luck.
So I went out and got the Sony Memory Card Reader... I plugged it in, and my RH 7.3 system assigned the USB-Storage driver to it.
So here's what I did you be able to access the data on the card....
edit /etc/fstab and added an entry like this:
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
Then I determined via dmesg and /proc/bus/usb/devices that this was somehow getting mapped to a SCSI device.
So I added another line to my /etc/fstab file like this.
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sony auto noauto 0 0
And of course made the /mnt/sony directory.
Then I did mount /mnt/sony and there it was... NICE!!
Now I can use my digital camera to put pics on my linux system...
I must say that USB support has come a long way. I have my web cam working, and my card reader working.... never had usb in linux before!
The only problem I have is that I cannot get a user to be able to mount the filesystem. I think it is becuase USB being hotplugable will assign different device numbers to the same hardware, which makes it hard to change permissions of it. I've 777ed the /mnt/sony and the /dev/sda1 to no avail, I still get that only root can mount this.
Next on my list.... to get my lexmark z52 to print as a smb printer while connected to my girls 98 machine. I got it to print, but it's all gibberish....
Notice the multimedia theme here... any questions.... let me know.
And please tell of similar circumstances or achievments...
:p