hello, world. yesterday i downloaded libusb from sourceforge and built it. then i downloaded gphoto2 and couldn't build it, so i got a tarball from gphoto.org and built that. then i plugged in my canon powershot g1 and the 'puter beeped happily, so i tried gphoto2 --list-ports and got a list of 24 serial ports, (by the way how do i get rid of the 22 bogus ones?), and no usb ports. checked /var/log/messages and found the following... Nov 4 19:36:22 linux kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus2/2, assigned device number 3 Nov 4 19:36:22 linux kernel: usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x4a9/0x3048) is not claimed by any active driver. Nov 4 19:36:23 linux usbmgr[386]: vendor:0x4a9 product:0x3048 Nov 4 19:36:23 linux usbmgr[386]: class:0xf subclass:0xff protocol:0xff Nov 4 19:36:23 linux usbmgr[386]: USB device isn't matched the configuration missing driver? foobert@linux:~ > su -c lsmod Password: Module Size Used by snd-pcm-oss 18816 0 (autoclean) snd-pcm-plugin 15024 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] snd-mixer-oss 5120 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss] snd-seq-midi 3568 0 (unused) snd-seq-midi-event 2992 0 [snd-seq-midi] snd-seq 42656 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event] snd-card-ens1371 2208 0 snd-ens1371 9632 0 [snd-card-ens1371] snd-pcm 30560 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-ens1371] snd-timer 8560 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm] snd-rawmidi 9664 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-ens1371] snd-seq-device 4032 0 [snd-seq-midi snd-seq snd-rawmidi] snd-ac97-codec 24576 0 [snd-ens1371] snd-mixer 24224 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec] snd 34032 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer] soundcore 3632 5 [snd] parport_pc 18480 1 (autoclean) lp 5392 0 (autoclean) parport 24352 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp] mousedev 4032 0 (unused) hid 11760 0 (unused) input 3168 0 [mousedev hid] usb-uhci 21840 0 (unused) ipv6 126272 -1 (autoclean) af_packet 11648 1 (autoclean) 8139too 11520 1 (autoclean) ipchains 33408 0 (unused) ide-scsi 7856 0 usbcore 47120 1 [hid usb-uhci] any suggestions? i admit i'm not very good at this. thanks, bobby cossum -- "If I had known it was harmless, I'd have killed it myself." Phillip K Dick A Scanner Darkly