My digital camera formats its memory cards to FAT32 only, My friend suggests this may be why it will not mount whenever I connect it.
Any suggestions? What other info can I offer on the problem?
Thanks in advance!
Craig

no way that is the problem... esp in Ubuntu ...

can you type "dmesg | tail" in a terminal screen and show the out put of that command to us?

craig@craig-desktop:~$ dmesg | tail
[17179603.288000] [drm] Initialized i915 1.4.0 20060119 on minor 0
[17179604.024000] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[17179604.856000] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[17179604.856000] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[17179605.048000] Capability LSM initialized
[17179610.040000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[17179616.948000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[17179616.948000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[17179616.948000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[17179627.668000] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
craig@craig-desktop:~$

Hi Craig,

I'll second the statement that fat32 shouldn't be a problem in getting your camera recognized. My camera is fat32 and I am able to read the card from a card reader on ubuntu 7.10 with no problems. One thing I didn't see mentioned either way in the posts above is whether the camera is set to "MSC" or hard drive mode when communicating with the PC. If it isn't (and you can find where to make this change in the camera menu or manual) I would set it to this and try mounting it then. If that fixes the problem, disregard the rest of this post.

As for the results from dmesg, I'm not sure that picked up what we would need. I would make sure you run the command 20 seconds after connecting the camera to the computer. I would leave off the "| tail", and just run "dmesg". Then I would post the last 30 lines back here.

Thanks for the help. Its a nikon coolpix 4100 if that means anything to you.
We thought the FAT might be a problem because I get the same error with my memory card reader, except the cards that are NTFS.
Anywho, heres the dmesg with cam. connected.

[17179603.288000] [drm] Initialized i915 1.4.0 20060119 on minor 0
[17179604.024000] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[17179604.856000] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[17179604.856000] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[17179605.048000] Capability LSM initialized
[17179610.040000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[17179616.948000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[17179616.948000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[17179616.948000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[17179627.668000] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[17184170.376000] usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[17184170.944000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[17184170.944000] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[17184170.944000] usb-storage: device found at 2
[17184170.944000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[17184170.944000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
[17184170.944000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[17184175.948000] Vendor: NIKON Model: NIKON DSC E4100 Rev: 1.00
[17184175.948000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
[17184175.952000] SCSI device sdb: 993280 512-byte hdwr sectors (509 MB)
[17184175.956000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[17184175.956000] sdb: Mode Sense: 18 00 00 08
[17184175.956000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[17184175.964000] SCSI device sdb: 993280 512-byte hdwr sectors (509 MB)
[17184175.968000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[17184175.968000] sdb: Mode Sense: 18 00 00 08
[17184175.968000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[17184175.968000] sdb: sdb1
[17184175.980000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[17184175.980000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[17184175.992000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[17184177.444000] FAT: Unrecognized mount option "usefree" or missing value
craig@craig-desktop:~$

lookin at what u have posted ur digicam is detected... see the lines saying 'usb device found'

but in the end there is some problem mounting its contents...
try mounting sdb to /media/cam with -t vfat
before this create a dir /media/cam

Yeah Im afraid I dont know much about doing anything you just said. Hopefully I can get my friend to help me out with that but it might be a while. Anyway thank you kindly for the suggestion!
Craig

All right then, we went through whatever it was you said, and now it works if I put in a code. He's going to try and help me set up a thingy that does the code from one command.
Any-who, Thanks for the help!!
Craig