I have an Olympus C-720C UZ camera and cannot find a Linux a file viewing software that will unload the files from the camera other than through a memory card reader (ridiculously slow and mostly unsuccessful). The operating system I run is Linspire 5.0. Thank you for your suggestions.

After plugging in your camera, run 'dmesg'. Look near the bottom for any lines describing your camera and post them here.

usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: OLYMPUS Model: C720UZ Rev: 1030
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdb: 32000 512-byte hdwr sectors (16 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 17 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 32000 512-byte hdwr sectors (16 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 17 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb.
usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 4
scsi2 (0:0): rejecting I/O to dead device
SCSI error: host 2 id 0 lun 0 return code = 4000000
Sense class 0, sense error 0, extended sense 0
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: OLYMPUS Model: C720UZ Rev: 1030
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdb: 32000 512-byte hdwr sectors (16 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 17 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 32000 512-byte hdwr sectors (16 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 17 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
/dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
SCSI error : <3 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 41
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 0
SCSI error : <3 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 42
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 1
SCSI error : <3 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 43
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 2
SCSI error : <3 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 44
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 3
SCSI error : <3 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 45
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 4
SCSI error : <3 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 46
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 5
SCSI error : <3 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 47
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 6
SCSI error : <3 0 0 0> return code = 0x70000
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 48
Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 7
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb.
FAT: bogus number of reserved sectors
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sdb.