missing /dev/sda from digital camera
I'm trying to mount the memory card of my kodak c643 digital camera. Now I know this should work, as it does work on Suse, but somehow I can't get it working on Slackware (kernel version 2.6.20.1)...
Here's what I've done so far: 1. Recompiled the kernel with the usb_storage module and everything there that seemed useful. Tried both as a device and a module. 2. When as a module, I loaded it with modprobe Effect: There is no /dev/sda or anything that might represent the digital camera to mount and copy the pictures off it. 3. Tried installing gtkam. When I select add camera and click on detect, it says "no camera found", and when I select my camera from the list and click on apply, it says "could not initialise camera". Linux does detect something there. From lsusb, I get Bus 3 Device 8: ID 040a:05a7 Kodak Co. After much googleing, I have found something about a sd_mod module. I searched the config file, but there is no such module. What is it, and is it required? So, what am I doing wrong? Or what else should I try? Thanks for reading. Any info or suggestions are welcomed. |
Post results of:
ls -lR /dev/disk
That sould give you the name the device was given. Also might need to check to ensure scsi support is enabled, although i think its enabled by default in the 2.6.20 kernel, might check anyway. |
Thanks for the quick reply.
Here's ls -lR /dev/disk ( I guessed that is a small L, not an i): Code:
ls -lR /dev/disk Regarding scsi, this is what a cat .config | grep SCSI says: Code:
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI is not set |
Hd8
Still looking through mine... had to change puters :).
try ls -l /dev/usb* and /dev/sda* Seeing if udev is picking it up or a system config problem. EDIT: is this a card reader or a camera with usb connection? |
It's a camera connected to the usb port with the cable it came with.
Code:
$ls -l /dev/usb* Code:
$ls -l /dev/sda* I'll reboot into suse and see what's it like in there, and maybe I can get some more clues as to what isn't working properly, and post back after that |
ok... so there's no /dev/something there either... But something called kfmclient pops up and offers to open a window with camera:
There is nothing relevant mounted... And another interesting thing... In kde's Control Center under Suse I have a section called "digital camera", but not under Slackware... Is there a program I should install that Suse has and Slackware doesn't? What is kfmclient? |
Try the kfmclient when it opens.
Its a profile in konquerer if I understand correctly. Will look at my slackware system, once I get it back up lol and mount my camera again so I can remember how I did it.
EDIT: as far as the camera app, might google it and see if you can get the source. |
Kodak cameras do not appear as disks to the operating system, and therefore cannot be mounted as such.
I spent hours getting mine to work under Slackware 11 before I figured this out..... there is a special software needed to read the camera under Linux. I would love to get mine working under slack 12 and walk you threw it at the same time, but I just realized that I have no idea where my cameras cable is :-/ A quick Google search tells me that gphoto2 (2.1.6) is the package needed to make this thing work.... I think I got it and its dependencies on linuxpackages.net last time... but that was before Christmas and I honestly don't remember. If you Google or search here specifically for Kodak camera Linux you should find more info. Also, if you take the memory card out of the camera, and stick it in a card reader, you CAN mount it as a drive like you are trying to. Honestly, thats why I didn't bother setting up the software to read the camera, because I have a card reader in both my laptop and my desktop, so i guess loosing my cable isn't a big deal :p (although it still annoys me) Let me know how you make out.... If you cant get it working Ill try harder to find my cable, and then write a walk threw since I'm betting this is probably confusing other people too. |
Thanks both of you for your replies.
Sorry for me not posting earlier, but I had about a dozen exams I had to take. Admittane in a good university is really a pain in my country... Anyway, regarding the camera, I tried gphoto2, but it doesn't seem to detect the camera. Code:
gphoto2 --auto-detect So... what should I do now? |
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