USB camera won't mount:Partially solved

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:41:05AM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
>Well, I took the camera to work, loaded up knoppix, and the thang mounted
>automatically on boot up and the transfers went without problem and about
>10x as fast as on my computer at home. Hurray for knoppix. You the man!
>
>So, it looks like my fooling aroung with glibc and gcc and whatever
>mangeled my system. (Or the usb hardware is failing.) I may have
>to recompile everything, but, my compiler isn't working on that box
>anymore. This sounds like upgrade time. Sigh. This server serves windows
>and linux to other boxes. Ugh. Talk about the evils of a central server!

One of benefits of using openpkg is that one can mess with compilers and
stuff like that without nuking anything in the underlying system.

Bill
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