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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Has anyone gotten USB cameras or other mass storage devices to work with 
either Bl3 or BL2?

We have a camera that works with two DOS drivers in config.sys, on a 
desktop, but on this laptop only gives one of two error messages.  Half 
the time it can't find the device, the other half 'invalid disk change'.

So I would like to try USB.  We have Redhat 7 on there and it says 
something about usb-ohci.c, IRQ 11, bus 1/1 and assigned device 2.

How, using a later Slackware kernel (8.1?), would I set up USB for this 
mass-storage camera?

The other USB camera won't even work in DOS on the desktop.  We have a 
PCMCIA CF adaptor which works with both cameras (but not on this laptop).

My Olympus Smartmedi adaptor, also USB, won't even work under DOS on the 
desktop but at least the serial cable works with photopc (in BL or DOS).

The parallel CF reader works under DOS on the desktop, with Freedos (not 
dosemu) but not Win98DOS which we have on this laptop, and not on another 
laptop where it seems to have a power problem (even with FreeDOS).  It 
reboots when you try to give it power via a keyboard adaptor as 
instructed.  And we have no way to get FreeDOS on his laptop anyway.

So we can't use this computer for camera downloads from the USB/CF camera 
(parport and PCMCIA flash card readers won't work here, DOS USB won't 
work) unless we get linux USB to work somehow.  If I could at least test 
it in Redhat I would know whether to try in BL.  This laptop is our only 
one with working battery and we will be camping part of the trip.

The other USB camera won't work in DOS even on a desktop and is the better 
of the two, but we could use the first camera as a card reader.  Or get a 
card reader but I don't know if that would work under DOS since the SM 
card reader does not even on a desktop.

We could wait until we visited someone with a desktop if we had more than 
10MB CF card.  Ebay has 64MB for $7.50.

I tried mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt but there is no sda1.
DOS assigned D: when it works.

Any ideas how to use Redhat with USB camera just to test the laptop?
We had SW81 working with USB mouse but that is a different driver.


The 486 laptop with a working pcmcia has a dead floppy drive and dead :; 
key but we can type Alt-58 and Alt-59 on the keypad instead.  Is there 
some way to automate typing Alt-58 as an alias instead?