Canon A40 trouble

[Kurt Wall]

On Wednesday 08 June 2005 12:56, Robert Hemus enlightened us thusly:
> On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 06:50, Tom Wilson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 22:00, Robert Hemus wrote:
> > > Rick, I dmesg | fgrep and got this;
> >
> > Bob,
> >
> > Plug the camera in and then just run dmesg by itself.  The last few
> > lines of output give you the information about the camera.  Go
> > ahead and post the output if you wish.
> >
> > Tom Wilson
> > McSwain Carpets
> > 513.771.1400 x4433
>
> Here are the last few lines as user, not root.
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
> ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!
> 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 nvidia.o Kernel Module  1.0-4496
> Wed Jul 16 19:03:09 PDT 2003
> CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
> PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
> PPP BSD Compression module registered
> PPP Deflate Compression module registered
> hub.c: new USB device 00:1d.1-2, assigned address 3
> usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x4a9/0x3058) is not claimed by any
> active driver.

The last two lines show the problem. The camera is detected, but
there's no driver loaded that knows what to do with it. The ID
(vend/prod 0x4a9/0x3058) shows that it is, in fact, a Canon PowerShot
A40. The Linux USB site says it works 
(http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=1142).

See also http://torsten.members.atlantic.net/toshy/powershot.html
and http://www.edginet.org/techie/linux/canon.html.

Kurt