[wplug] digital camera and Gentoo

[Tom McCullough]

I have GTKam and gphoto2 installed, but the Dimage V shows up as a 
serial device (i.e. tty something) so that won't work either.  I elected 
to use Gnome as my gui, so I don't get automounted disks.  by the way, 
do you know how to add items to the applications menu and the desktop 
menu in Gnome?  I can't remember it's been too long since I had anything 
other than RH9 and KDE.  Is the sandisk 8 in1 internal? I don't need any 
more external devices laying about on my desk.  I had a generic internal 
about a year ago and it never did work with RH8 or 9 and intermittantly 
in debian.  (It did work with XP.)  Speaking of XP, in all fairness, I 
have not seen a device yet that it didn't configure correctly including 
both of my digital cameras (minolta Dimage A1 and canon powershot A70.)  
Don't get me wrong, I still prefer linux as a matter of principle and 
for the security, but XP does work well for the non-technical user.
tom.......

Robert E. Coutch wrote:

>Another option:
>
>You could skip setting the camera up as a disk device and just use
>digikam.
>
>The version I have (0.5.1) say it supports a Minolta Dimage V.
>
>I use it on one of my cameras that does not do disk emulation.
>
>Also, I just picked up a SanDisk 8 in 1 USB card reader.
>It was completely plug and play on my SuSE 8.2 Professional system
>
>It takes CF (type I and II), SD, MMC, xD, Smart Media, Memory Stick and M.S. 
>PRO memory cards.
>
>It has 4 slots and allows all 4 to be used at the same time.
>
>I loaded the unit with memory from my Zaurus (CF and SD) and a digital camera 
>(Smart Media), then placed the unit in its docking station and POOF !
>Icons appeared for three SCSI drives on my KDE desktop.
>
>No editing of config files, loading of kernel modules or dev creation was 
>needed to be done manually. NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT !
>
>Windows losers (ooops - I mean users) would have needed to load drivers from 
>an included CD.
>  
>