[wplug] Digital Camera: D-370

[Embery, Nathan]

 Just wanted to mention that that's way too much work for this day and age
;-) If you're using FC1 or SUSE check out this site

http://primates.ximian.com/~rml/project_utopia/

In case you haven't heard about it, project utopia aims to simplify hardware
management in Linux greatly. It's a combination of technologies like HAL,
DBUS, g-v-m, and a collection of callout scripts to make stuff like cameras
'just work'

http://primates.ximian.com/~rml/blog/archives/000395.html

http://freedesktop.org/Software/hal

This would actually make a pretty good topic for a LUG talk ;-)
Good stuff
Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Haney [mailto:mh4s at xinterra.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 9:03 AM
To: General user list
Subject: Re: [wplug] Digital Camera: D-370



> On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 13:30:54 -0400
> "techmike" <mikeslists at access995.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Anybody have much luck in accessing an Olympus digital camera (D-
370) from 
> > linux?
> > 
> > It's driverless in windows appearing as a removable drive.
> 
> That probably means that it's USB mass storage device compatible.
> 
> Which means you should be able to plug it in to any OS that supports 
USB
> mass storage devices and mount it as if it were a hard drive.
> 
> I'm not sure of the exact process for doing that in Linux, but 
hopefully you'll
> be able to find a quick HOWTO.

I access my digital camera as a USB mass storage device. The module 
that you need to load is called usb-storage. I don't load it by 
default, so I just load it as needed with modprobe. I think you can 
use the lsmod command to see if it is loaded already.

So, when I want to download the pictures from my camera I do the 
following:

# modprobe usb-storage

Then I connect the camera to the computer's USB port and turn it on, 
then...

# mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera

Then I just copy the files from /mnt/camera as I would any other files.

(I created /mnt/camera for this purpose, but you could just mount it 
at /mnt or wherever you want.) HTH.

Mark




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