Problems getting digital camera to work
 

I'm trying to get an Olympus C-3000 Zoom digital camera working with my 9.0 Slackware install. I've taken the following steps:
insmod usb-core
insmod usb-uhci

I can now see the digital camera in the InfoCenter KDE application. So that's good news.

However, from reading other posts and what not - it sounds like I should see a /dev/sda1 device that I can mount. This is where I run into trouble.

root: mount /dev/sda1 /usb_cam
root: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

And if I look in /proc/scsi/scsi:
root: cat /proc/scsi/scsi
root: Attached devices: none

My /var/adm/messages shows:
Nov 8 21:38:03 ebonbox kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:11.2-2, assigned address 6
Nov 8 21:38:06 ebonbox /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product 7b4/100/100

An fdisk -l on /dev/sda does not turn up any drives.

Results of lsmod:

Module Size Used by Tainted: PF
usb-storage 60116 0 (unused)
appletalk 21508 1 (autoclean)
ipx 17316 1 (autoclean)
agpgart 35776 3 (autoclean)
nvidia 1628288 11 (autoclean)
vmnet 19688 6
vmmon 22804 0 (unused)
parport_pc 14724 1 (autoclean)
lp 6752 0 (autoclean)
parport 23264 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
printer 7040 0
emu10k1 61288 1
ac97_codec 9512 0 [emu10k1]
soundcore 3332 4 [emu10k1]
emu10k1-gp 1352 0 (unused)
gameport 1452 0 [emu10k1-gp]
uhci 24560 0 (unused)
usbcore 58144 1 [usb-storage printer uhci]
pcmcia_core 38112 0
ide-scsi 8048 0
pcnet32 14368 1
mii 2240 0 [pcnet32]
ntfs 51040 1 (autoclean)

Any ideas would be much appreciated!

ok first off i dont have a digital camera but ...

/dev/sda1 is a scsi hard disk partition ... like /dev/hda1 is a ide hard disk partition

i think your trying to mount a usb device becuase you said you insmod usb-uhci.

check what the device to mount is again ...



if you can see the camera in kde what happens when you try to use it?

Well, I thought the scsi stuff was necessary in order to mount the camera's memory card so that I could read pictures off of it. So even though the camera is visible as a USB device - I can't really use it until I'm able to mount the memory card.

From reading other posts it sounds like this happens more or less automagically once you have the proper usb modules loaded... this does not seem to be working for me though.

You do need the scsi stuff, and the proper device normally is /dev/sda1. The filesystem is normally vfat. Try mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /usb_cam to see if that works.

You may need to have hotplug installed.

I haven't tried my digital (fujifilm) on slack, but on debian it works. You may need to upgrade the kernel.

see if you can mount it as a root. (Just came to my mind)...