[ale] Canon Powershot S45 usb......HELP!!!

[Geoffrey]

Keith Morris wrote:
> Hi it's me, the resident (eternal) newbie. I bought a Canon PowerShot
> S45 digital camera and have been trying to use it with linux.  
> 
> I am using RH8 which is preconfigured with gphoto2, but it only
> recognizes up to the Canon S40, so it won't autoDetect.
> 
> What I'd really like to do is just mount the camera and copy the files
> off, but I don't know which device to mount.  This is an ongoing problem
> for me as I use external portable firewire drives as well and the get
> "lost" in /dev.
> 
> How does one know which /dev to mount?  is there a utility to list
> active devices so I can at least narrow it down a bit?
> 
> when I do a "dmesg" after pluggin in my camera I am given the following:
>         
>         hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2/2, assigned device
>         number 5
>         usb.c: USB device 5 (vend/prod 0x4a9/0x306c) is not claimed by
>         any active driver.
> 
> so I know it is being recognized by the system I just haven't figured
> out how to use it.

It's recognized, but there's no driver to work with it.  You should 
probably try insmod usb-storage

Once you do that, check demsg or your log files.  If it is properly 
recognized, it will note the associated device.

> 
> Any advice you could offer would be much appreciated as this is quite
> frustrating to me.
> 
> Peace

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