[Sheflug] USB woes

[Richard Fletcher <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello, before Christmas I mentioned that I was getting a digital camera. Now 
I have the Jenoptik JD800i which connects via USB. Obviously I want to get 
the pictures from it to my computer. Using the supplied Windows software is 
not an option since I dont have Windows. I'm not entirely sure what to do. I 
have downloaded gphoto2 but it doesn't support my camera. And to be honest, 
Im not even sure I've got USB working properly.

I turn on the computer and plug in the Camera and turn it on. I have 
installed the hotplug software and it seems to be going but after turning on 
the Camera /proc/bus/usb/ remains empty. What I want to do is find out that 
my Camera is definately not a Mass Storage Device before I go out and buy a 
Flash Reader. I also want to know that my USB is working.

I suppose the fact that /proc/bus/usb exsists is good. I realise I have to 
have certain things configured in the kernal. My latest compile has the 
options

CONFIG_USB=y
CONFIG_USB_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS=y
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=m
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_DEBUG=y

with linux 2.4.17.  I dont know how stable this kernel is but I needed to get 
hold of the sources and just got the latest ones.

Anyway a 
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/hotplug status"
gives me;

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PCI Status for kernel:  Linux 2.4.17 i686

PCI up; bus count is 1
00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597 [SiS5582] (rev 02)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 01)
00:01.1 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 (rev d0)
00:01.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 10)
00:09.0 Multimedia video controller: 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Voodoo 2 (rev 02)
00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq: Unknown device 5880 (rev 02)
00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597/5598 
VGA (rev 65)


USB Status for kernel:  Linux 2.4.17 i686

USB-devfs is unavailable.
USB may be statically linked.
If khubd is running, that shows USB is available.

khubd/hotplug thread:
  F S   UID   PID  PPID  C PRI  NI ADDR SZ  WCHAN TTY          TIME CMD
040 S     0     7     1  0  69   0 -     0 21428f ?        00:00:00 khubd

Module                  Size  Used by

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I dont really know what else to do. But there is one thing. The installation 
instructions for hotplug state

        # cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
        # chkconfig --add hotplug

And I have no program chkconfig, I just supposed that the purpose of  this 
was to get hotplug started at boot up, the README says chkconfig is a RedHat 
thing. Was this supposition wrong, does chkconfig do something else, 
something vital even?


As ever, any comments are appreciaited.

Richard


- -- 
Richard Fletcher, Sheffield, UK.
"Those who shun unix are forced to reinvent it."
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