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  • From: sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] finally found what I have been looking for
  • Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 22:20:48 +0000 (UTC)

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, James Miller wrote:

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.

That is fine if you happen to be near your own computer with pcmcia slot in it and we do have one of those, but what do you do at friends' houses to transfer photos when the card starts to fill up? I was hoping for something that could go on floppy-disk linux and let me plug a camera into a USB port and download via linux. A 520K kernel might fit.

Are public library computers now equipped with user-accessible USB ports or card readers? We were able to download photos at libraries via our serial cable though some libraries refused to allow floppy disk use.
Of course in that case we could not get our photos onto floppy disk anyway, but maybe we could upload them to a website.

I think a serial-cable camera with memory card in it (usable with a card reader) might improve our odds while travelling.


James
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