On Sunday 10 September 2006 12:50, Graham Smith wrote:
On Sunday 10 September 2006 14:36, constant@indo.net.id wrote:
My serial port USB cable is still not in use because I have not found a way to address anything connected with this cable. Right now I have the serial connector from my camera connected to this USB cable. I am running both 10.1 and 9.3 fully up to date. The camera should be recognized if used on a normal serial port but via the USB port it does not work. The cable is recognized as /dev/sde1 and can be found in the fstab. Mounting results in following:
# mount /media/imation mount: /dev/sde1 is not a valid block device
In my fstab it says for this device: /dev/sde1 /media/imation vfat rw,noauto,users
Firstly serial devices are not block devices and therefore cannot be mounted using the mount command. You will have to use a serial communications program like minicom to send and receive data.
Are you really sure the camera does not support USB - I'd be surprised if it doesn't. If it only supports serial communications I think you are going to have real problems getting it to work.
Please watch /var/log/messages and then plug in the usb cable. It will give you a bit more information on what is being detected
I have never used a USB to serial cable but the device you are looking for is something like /dev/ttyUSB0
If you have the kernel sources installed there is documentation on USB serial devices located at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt. I suggest you have a read of that document.
Also you will have to work out what the protocol is being used by the camera.
Dear Graham, Seeing the sde1 in the fstab and in konquerer I thought that I could just mount it. If I click on it in Konquerer I get "Feature only available with HAL" Does not ring a bell. This kind of info is as I would expect it from another well known OS ;). My camera is indeed serial and in digikam and other camera programs the USB is greyed out. Fuji M2900. I have changed the port in the config file into /dev/ttyUSB0 as this is the port detected after plugging in the USB plug. In the var/log messages I get following info: Sep 10 18:11:38 bigone kernel: pl2303 1-1.2:1.0: pl2303 converter detected Sep 10 18:11:38 bigone kernel: usb 1-1.2: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0 Sep 10 18:11:42 bigone kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. snip, six times repeated Sep 10 18:12:15 bigone /etc/hotplug.d/ttyUSB0/50-visor.hotplug[17988]: add tty device /class/tty/ttyUSB0 Sep 10 18:12:39 bigone kernel: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. I have tried to use digikam as the photo2 program but I do not seem to get the camara to contact. No kernel sources installed and it seems I can not get the text any other way, Googled but not succesful.