RE: [Sheflug] Digital Cameras and USB.

["Neil R Porter" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don't know about the drivers, but with regards to getting usb off the
mobo and onto the back, just get your mobo manual and find out where the
usb pins are.  Then, buy a usb socket set from your local comp shop
(basically just a couple of usb sockets with cables off to plug into
your mobo) and stick it into a spare slot space on the back of your
comp.  I did this a while ago with an older computer of mine that had a
usb capable mobo but didn't have the sockets attached.  It works fine.
As I say though, as for the drivers and which camera etc, I don't
know... Although I recall that the LinuxFormat mag had a review recently
(if not the current issue!), maybe check that out?

Goog luck

Neil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk 
> [mailto:shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk] On Behalf Of 
> Richard Fletcher
> Sent: 09 December 2001 17:09
> To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> Subject: [Sheflug] Digital Cameras and USB.
> 
> 
> Hello,
> Its my 21st soon and my mum has offered to get me a digital 
> camera. But I 
> have my concerns over the transfer of images from it to my 
> PC. Since I dont 
> run windows whatsoever I need to know it will work with 
> Linux. Im assuming 
> there is software out there to cope with the transfer but I 
> also have the 
> problem of the actual connection.
> 
> Im sure that my motherboard supports USB as there is an 
> option in the BIOS to 
> disable it, but I have no plug at the back which could 
> possibly be USB, 
> although I admit I have no idea what a USB plug looks like. 
> Now assuming that 
> all digital camera's use USB I could be a bit stuck, and may 
> well have to ask 
> for something else instead.
> 
> So should I invest in some kind of plug and attatch it to part of the 
> motherboard, or are there cameras out there which are quite 
> happy to use the 
> parallel port, or should I give up altogether because there's 
> no software out 
> there which could possibly help?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Fletcher, Sheffield, UK.
> "Those who shun unix are forced to reinvent it." 
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