Does anyone know how to get a digital camera (Kodak DC280 Zoom) working in linux? I'm running Red Hat Linux 9.

If it has a compact flash card, get a reader made by SanDisk, and read and write to the card that way - the reader is quite cheap - £20.

Yes I think it has a compact flash card.

But it's a USB digital camera, isn't there some good support for that in Linux?

this may help:

http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=33

I had the same problem with my digital camera. I had to treat it as a USB Mass storage device (by the way I have a Casio Exilim EX-Z3). Here is what I did:
modprobe usb-storage
Created a directory to mount the camera in
mkdir /mnt/camera

Found out what the device name is:
dmesg | less
There will be alot of output. Look for USB port entries and you will get the device name. My device was sdb1 (since you are running rh9 also it is probably the same so try to mount sdb1 before running this command)

Mount the device on the directory I created
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/camera

Does this include all SanDisk models, or just specific ones? If specific, which? I have a Kodak DC-280 which used to work with Windows but will work with neither Windows nor Linux now, so card reader seems the only way to go.

I don't know about other models, but mine is the SDDR-31 and it is automatically recognised as a USB-mass storage device.

but i use

http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/

working fine !

GTKam/GPhoto2 works fine with my Kodax DX4330 as configured by Mandrake9.1