Can't create directories in /proc
 

I've been trying to get my digicamera work. It's Canon A75 and it has worked me with Gentoo,but I have had problems with Debian. When I run gphoto2 --camera="Canon PowerShot A70" --get-all-files

it says:

This has worked for me before. I have Debian testing.

Also it seems that I can't create directories to /proc which I think is the problem, because there is no /proc/bus/usb and I can't mount usb filesystem there. Something missing from kernel or what?

To answer the second part…

The /proc/ directory is the mount-point for the “proc” filesystem, which contains all sorts of useful goodies.
/proc/bus/usb is the mount-point for the “usbfs” filesystem, which contains information about the USB devices you are using.

You will need /proc/ filesystem support compiled into the kernel for it to work (CONFIG_PROC_FS). Unless you have recompiled your kernel, this will almost certainly be the case. Then you can add the following to your /etc/fstab file:
Then, assuming you have all the relevant kernel modules, you can run to mount usbfs.

Hope that helps,

— Robert J. Lee

Well, it just says

mount: mount point /proc/bus/usb does not exist

It doesn't let me make that usb directory there, but /proc/bus is there already. Sorry if I was a bit of unclear.

I have /proc support in kernel and usb support and /proc is mounted.

You should have the /proc/bus/usb directory if you have the USB_DEVICEFS symbol defined in the kernel.

Run this command: This should give you one of the following:
This means that you have usbfs support compiled into the kernel; I don't see why /proc/bus/usb doesn't exist in this case.

This means that usbfs is compiled as a module. You will need to load it with This means that usbfs is not compiled. You'll need to recompile your kernel to get this working.

NB: If you have an older kernel, then usbfs may be called usbdevfs instead. So you might have to repeat the above for usbdevfs instead of usbfs.

Hope that helps,

— Robert J. Lee