I've made an assumption that the PDR-M61 has a smart card in it. If it does then it should act as a usb-storage device (ie you can't control the camera like w/ gphoto but you should at least be able to download the pics off the camera like a hard disk). It says SmartMedia (TM). It's wafer thin... quite a bit thinner and wider than those sticks of gum that Sony puts out.
Treating it like a storage device really should work if usb is working on your machine. That's what I've been shooting for from the beginning (i.e., mounting it as a USB storage device).
The only thing I can think might have been missed is plug camera in and turn on then: I wish that were the case, but the power is definately on, and I get the following output on xconsole the moment I switch the camera's dial to the 'connect' setting. hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 3 usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x1132/0x4335) is not claimed by any active driver So I'm sure I've got things on the camera end squared away.
su password /sbin/modprobe usb-storage The usb-storage module & usb-ochi module are already being loaded up at boot time (see 'lsmod' from my 1st post).
then: /sbin/fdisk -l Here's what I get. Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 526 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 261 2096451 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 * 262 263 16065 83 Linux /dev/hda3 264 509 1975995 83 Linux /dev/hda4 510 526 136552+ 82 Linux swap Unfortunatley, nothing '/dev/sd*' at all.
This really should work. give it one more try let me know how things turn out
David, I truly appreciate all your help on this (as well as everyone else who replied). Did you read Gruss Olaf's response to this thread? Here's what he thought after seeing my /proc/bus/usb/devices:
Under /proc/bus/usb/devices the following info shows up upon connecting the camera. T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=02 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 3 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=1132 ProdID=4335 Rev= 1.00 S: Manufacturer=TOSHIBA S: Product=PDR-M61 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=ff(vend.) Sub=ff Prot=ff Driver=(none)
That last line means: It is a "sloppy" USB device and the vendor did not put a valid ident string in that thing. There is a file drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h in the linux kernel source, that contains such devices (matched by vendor and product ID). But yours is not yet included in the upcoming 2.4.18 kernel. So you can either hack it in or try gphoto (check their website if it is supported).
Gruss Olaf
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