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. -- Regards, Graham Smith