I'm trying to get this camera to d/l pictures to my system instead of removing the cd and copying to the drive before the cd is full. usbview sees it as a Sony PTP. Running Harddrake its seen an an 'other/unknown device' Sony PTP.I'm running Mandrake 9.0 and being the newbie that I am, I'm pretty much lost here. I do know that it doesn't show up in my fstab file as a SCSI device, only my CDRW does. Any and all advice will be greately appreciated.

Chris

How do you connect this device to your computer? When you "plug it in" however it is, type this into a terminal as root and watch:
tail -f /var/log/messages
It might reveal what device it's going to use, or it might reveal something useful as to what to do next. Either way, it's probably going to tell you something good

Cool

Here is my output of tail -f /var/log/messages. The camera appears to be seen, but has no driver?

Jan 5 08:16:48 localhost kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/1, assigned device number 3
Jan 5 08:16:48 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x54c/0x4e) is not claimed by any active driver.
Jan 5 08:16:51 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usbcam usbcam usbcam usbcam usbcam usbcam usbcam for USB product 54c/4e/120
Jan 5 08:16:51 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Module setup usbcam for USB product 54c/4e/120
Jan 5 08:16:56 localhost last message repeated 6 times

Chris

Try to change the USB settings on the camera from PTP to NORMAL. Then you should be able to mount it as USB mass storage (/dev/sd?)

Hmm, looked all through the book and can't find where I can change from PTP to Normal