Digital Camera recommendations ...

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 11:42:23PM -0500, Aakin N. Patel took 25 lines to write:
; : On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 11:03:04AM -0500, Aakin N. Patel took 24 lines to write:
; : ; 
; : ; I've had 2 canon digital cameras (the S100, and then the S1 IS), and
; : ; both are great. I haven't used them directly linked to my linux box,
; : ; but both of them use compact flash cards, and using any card reader
; : ; with the usb-storage module is easy. Compile in scsi disk support,
; : ; modprobe uhci-hcd, modprobe usb-storage, and then mount /dev/sda1.
; : 
; : Vis-a-vis. "using any card reader with the usb-storage modules is easy,"
; : I've had a bear of a time the with USBAT02-based readers (think
; : Microtech Zio!) under 2.6. It seems the driver is just now getting
; : to the point that it works. 
; 
; Hrm. Okay... can't say I've used that one. I've used the lexar jumpshot,
; and one that came with my sandisk compact flash card, as well as a
; 6-in-1 card reader that shipped with my sager laptop. They all worked
; under 2.4 and 2.6, but maybe I just completely lucked out in that.

It isn't a matter of lucking out. The USBAT02 driver worked fine under
2.4. It has had issues under 2.6 and has been undergoing a rewrite. I
could, of course, go and get a different card reader, but I'm just being
stubborn and waiting for this one to work. There's a new version of the
USBAT02 driver out now (0.5.0, if you're keeping score at home), and
most of the folks on the USBAT02 list have reported success using it.
I'm building a new module now...

Kurt
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