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jkriger
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 Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 12:08 am Post subject: HELP with USB! |
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Hi,
I want to download pictures from my A60 via USB to my Gentoo Linux.
I read something like I must mount /dev/sda1 ...sda9. But I don have this device.
CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN CLEARLY HOW TO CONNECT MY CAMERA TO MY LINUX VIA USB, FROM THE SCRATCH.
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MADcow
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 1:11 am Post subject: |
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please, please ask for help in a reasonable and polite manner. no caps. caps denote yelling.
that aside, you need scsi emulation compiled in your kernel, along with ram disk support and support for your camera, etc.
you also need to boot with the camera plugged in, or else /dev/sda* will not exist.
usb support helps too. |
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MADcow
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 1:12 am Post subject: |
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oh yea, the flash card on the camera is probably formated VFAT, so you'll need FAT support as well.
edit: usb mass storage support is always good, too. |
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hbmartin
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 2:35 am Post subject: Re: HELP with USB! |
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| jkriger wrote: | Hi,
I want to download pictures from my A60 via USB to my Gentoo Linux.
I read something like I must mount /dev/sda1 ...sda9. But I don have this device.
CAN ANYONE EXPLAIN CLEARLY HOW TO CONNECT MY CAMERA TO MY LINUX VIA USB, FROM THE SCRATCH.
Thanks in advance. |
jkriger, we don't need all caps. as unix geeks we generally prefer lower caps anyway.
That aside here's a simple explanation (I hope) that assumes you already have USB support built into your kernel (if you don't know what this means, ket me know):
1. # emerge media-gfx/gphoto2
2. Plug in your camers and put it into PC/transfer mode
3. $ gphoto2 --auto-detect
If you camera is listed, you're good to go!
Otherwise, post any errors or further questions below.
Harold |
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jkriger
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 12:14 pm Post subject: Re: HELP with USB! |
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ok, ok, ok, don't get upset with letters in caps.
I want to know how can I mount my camera by hand into my linux. Don't want to use a software to do it. Does anyone know how to do this?
I think the step I must do are the following:
1) create the device sdaX (I don't know how to do this)
2) plug in my camera (I know how to do this)
3) mount it into my linux (I know how to do this)
4) play around with my pictures (I know how to do this)
So I need help with just step 1. Can onyone help me out with this? |
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hbmartin
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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Look in the devfs documentation.
Harold |
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MADcow
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 8:23 pm Post subject: |
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did you try any of the things i'm telling you? you don't have to manually create that device node. you probably don't have the kernel options i told you to put in, or you aren't booting with the camera plugged in. this last point is important; sda* for usb devices are usually not created unless the device is plugged in on boot.
that's my experience; i have no idea why it's not hot pluggable. any ideas? |
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