[BL] USB and the digital camera

Ron Clarke ariadne at earthlink.com.au
Wed Nov 16 16:13:05 EST 2005


Hi Folks,

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:39:24 -0800
David Moberg <davidjmoberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have a Kodak camera which requires gphoto, which
> provides its own driver (which should work with Steven's
> kernel. I haven't tested it yet.)

   My camera is also a Kodak - EasyShare C300.


> You can try my 2.4.31 kernel, which I just uploaded. You need:
> 
> PC with working math coprocessor and USB
> ext2 IDE hard drive partition with some version of BL installed
> (not loop or ramdisk)
> 
> http://us.share.geocities.com/davidjmoberg/zimage-usb.gz
> 
> Boot BL with the 2.4 kernel. Plug in camera. Then try to mount
> the camera:
> 
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
> 
> You can then copy the pictures from your camera to disk and
> reboot with your usual kernel to send the pictures somewhere
> else.
> 
> Please let us know if it works!

   I certainly will, I just downloaded your kernel and I will play with it today.

   I did manage to get the test photos off the camera yesterday, but not with BL.
A Google Linux search for the camera revealed that this camera uses a PTP protocol (developed by Kodak and others) but is amenable to gphoto2. Accordingly, I downloaded and compiled (in SW9.1) libgphoto2, gphoto2 and gtkam, and was able to access the photos (but not the movies) from SW9.1.

   Here's hoping that David's kernel makes it all a lot simpler.

Regards,
         Ron
 

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