On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:24, you wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:13:26 +1300 > > Yuri de Groot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you have a linux laptop with usb, bring it with > > you when you go camera shopping. Plug the camera in, > > boot linux and if it shows up as a usb mass storage > > drive then make note of the model. > > or note the vendor & product id, get on the net and look at the database, > thats what it is there for. > > i mentioned earlier using /proc/bus/usb/devices to find the id's. i > forgot that even simpler is lsusb, which gives this sort of output: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ /usr/sbin/lsusb > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 03f0:2911 Hewlett-Packard > Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0813:0001 Mattel, Inc.
nick nice I got ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] dave]# lsusb Invalid product/subclass spec at line 2650 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 055f:0002 Mustek Systems Inc. ScanExpress 600 CU Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0451:2046 Texas Instruments TUSB2046 Hub Bus 002 Device 004: ID 045e:0008 Microsoft Corp. SideWinder Precision Pro Bus 002 Device 005: ID 04a9:1073 Canon Inc. Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0458:001a KYE Systems Corp. (Mouse Systems) Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 not sure what the "Invalid product/subclass spec" refers to though? -- cheers................dave Reply to: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -------------------------------------------- KMail on Davesmachine Linux Mandrake release 9.1 (Bamboo) for i586 Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk i686 / tty4 --------------------------------------------
