Nikon Coolpix 2500 & USB

[Joel Hammer]

Thanks. I followed your suggestions and they worked perfectly. Dang, this is
good.

I just wish I knew why sda1 works. 

What this means is that I can automate picture taking at work, maybe. This
may be really good.

Joel

On Sat, Dec 21, 2002 at 05:34:14PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Dec 2002 17:00:12 -0500 Joel Hammer <Joel at HammersHome.com> wrote:
> 
> > I went out and bought a digital camera, Nikon Coolpix 2500. They didn't have
> > a card reader at BestBuy. The camera is designed to hook up to a USB port.
> > Does anyone know if there is a linux app that supports this camera?
> > 
> 
> Uhhh...
> 
> Since it's usb and a memory storage device... you can probably plug it in via
> the usb port on your computer, load the appropriate usb drivers, and then mount
> it as a scsi vfat device. Once done, I run XV to view the pictures and gimp to
> play with them...
> 
> Here's what I use to load the correct usb, fs modules and ends with a mount:
> 
> modprobe usbcore 
> modprobe usb-uhci
> modprobe usb-storage
> modprobe fat
> modprobe vfat
> echo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera
>