Eric,
Some cameras can be mounted without any software on FreeBSD. Yours is
not one of those so be it.
No we are going to use gPhoto2.
If you play (ON THE MENU OF CAMERA) with the options on YOUR CAMERA in
particular options for USB connector you will see that the following
options likely will be displayed
Pict Bridge
PTP
Mass Storage
Auto
By default the camera is in Auto mode which is good enough for Windozzz
but FreeBSD might want you
to put camera in PTP mode usually used when camera is directly
connected to PRINTER via
USB.
Then just follow the steps I gave you.
I am 99% sure that your camera DOES work with FreeBSD.
Predrag
Erin McNew wrote:
Thank you for the suggestions. I did try mounting the camera, but
since I had to use gphoto2 in linux, I figured I'd probably need to do
so in freebsd as well. It gave me the message saying it required a
block device.
I do not quite know what you mean about switching my camera to PTP
mode. I did not need to do anything special under Linux, but I will
google a bit to see what I can figure out related to that.
I will look into your suggestions a bit more closely tonight when I
get back home.
If I'm understanding your explanation correctly, the fact that my
camera is showing up as ugen0 instead of usb0 is not a problem, correct?
Thanks!
~Erin
On 9/5/07, *Predrag Punosevac* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
You should try to mount your camera manually first as
su -
password
mount_msdosfs /dev/ugen0 /mnt
If you can not read the camera only then you should use gphoto2 but
logged as a supper user to avoid
permission problems. If that fails i.e. if you get the message BLOCK
DEVICE RECUIRED you
should try to use gphoto2.
This is step by step for my Sony Cyber-Shot W70
1. Change into PTP mode on camera
2. Go to su mode (this can be avoided but I left it so that my wife
cannot mess with it)
3. gphoto2 --auto-detect will list your camera as Sony DSC-F707V (PTP
mode) usb:
4. gphoto2 --help to get various commands
5 gphoto2 --L will list all the files in numerical order
6 gphoto2 --get-file=NUMBER Range (will get you files in that range)
7 WARNING you may need to issue the commands some time multiple times
because
they fail. The following message is not uncommon
*** Error ***
Note you might not need to go to PTP mode for your particular camera!
If that fail then you can use cheap card reader which are well
detected
by FreeBSD.
There is an excellent thread that you can review
http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12015&page=7&pp=15
<http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12015&page=7&pp=15>
maybe somebody left specific details for you camera but I think I gave
you a big push:-)
Please let me know how it goes.
Predrag
Erin McNew wrote:
> I'm trying to get my Canon A620 camera to work with gphoto2
under FreeBSD.
>
> dmesg is telling me that my camera is /dev/ugen0.
>
> [osiris temp] gphoto2 --list-ports
> Devices found:
> 2
> Path Description
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ptpip: PTP/IP Connection
> usb: Universal Serial Bus
>
> [osiris temp] gphoto2 --port /dev/ugen0 -P
> *** Error ***
> An error occurred in the io-library ('I/O problem'): Failed to open
> '/dev/ugen0' (m).
> *** Error (-7: 'I/O problem') ***
>
> [osiris temp] gphoto2 -L
>
> 1
> *** Error ***
> An error occurred in the io-library ('Bad parameters'): Could
not find USB
> device (vendor 0x4a9, product 0x30fc). Make sure this device is
connected to
> the computer.
> *** Error (-2: 'Bad parameters') ***
>
> I tried using --debug, but it didn't seem to give me that much
more detail,
> at least that I could understand. I also tried specifying the
port as "usb"
> and the camera as "Canon PowerShot A620 (PTP mode)" (as
specified in gphoto2
> --list-cameras). None of this worked. Each gave me the "bad
parameters"
> error, which is slightly frustrating.
>
> I believe that this could be due to the fact that the camera is
being seen
> as ugen0 instead of usb. Is there a way to cause it to be seen
as usb?
>
> Thanks!
> ~Erin
>
>
>
>
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