[ale] Sony DSC usb under Linux?

[Dana Powers]

I have a Sony DSC-P1 and all I have to do is plug in the usb cable to
my computer, and mount the camera to the filesystem like so:

bash# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera
bash# cd /mnt/camera/
...
bash# cd ~
bash# umount /mnt/camera

Its that simple as long as the following things are true:

A. You have USB enabled in your kernel. Make sure the following are
loaded, or compiled into your kernel ( I run kernel 2.4.18 ):

usb-storage
usbcore
uhci ( you may need usb-ohci instead depending on your motherboard,
but try usb-uhci first ).

You can run 'lsmod' as root to see which modules are loaded and
'modprobe modulename' to load module.

B. You do not have other SCSI devices. If you do, your camera may show
up as /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc1 etc...

C. You have an empty directory called /mnt/camera in your filesystem
tree. Use mkdir '/mnt/camera' to make new directories.


There may be a slightly more automated way of doing this, but this is
fairly simple for me and worked straight out of the box. For more web
information, here is an indepth description of the process :
http://www.raubacapeu.net/people/yves/help/usbdscp1.html

HTH
dpk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Bergeron" <cbergeron at bass-associates.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2002 2:05 PM
Subject: [ale] Sony DSC usb under Linux?


> Could anyone point me to a g-file or howto about how I can access my
> CyberShot (DSC) under Linux?  That would make my life tremendously
easy
> because I just use imagemagick to make my thumbnails and build my
photo
> albums for me.  And I could even automate it and not have to use
windows
> to do everything manually...
>
> I saw in one of the messages about Digital Camera's that someone
> mentioned that they are doing it...
>
> Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me out here.
> -CB
>
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