Canon A40 trouble

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On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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.

What Kurt was also alluding to was that you need to either upgrade to a
newer kernel, or newer distro to address this.

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