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  • From: James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] finally found what I have been looking for
  • Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:28:39 -0600 (CST)

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> Did you get a USB camera to work with linux and ohci and mass-storage?
> Does this just make another device that you mount, like the zip drive?

I had enough bad experiences trying to get USB stuff going under Linux I
didn't even try. Things are somewhat better now under the latest-greatest
distros, and I have a USB multi-reader that works pretty well under Ubuntu
(2.6.8 kernel), though I cannot, inexplicably, unmount the disk through
the UI tools sometimes (have to resort to the CLI and use the -l option).
But it's no worse than trying to unmount floppies. But for cameras I got
one of those PCMCIA to CF cards and used it at the beginning. Worked fine
under BL2 after I got PCMCIA going. It just saw that CF as another drive.
Like David said, some cameras present themselves to the computer like
mass-storage devices when you hook them up with a USB cable. Others
apparently don't. I don't have enough experience with it to say which are
which. But if you want to do USB cameras under BL, I'd say be prepared for
a really steep learning curve. You'll have to do everything from square
one and learn all the gory technical details along the way.

James




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