Re: [Sheflug] USB woes

[Alex Hudson <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 20:03, Richard Fletcher wrote:
> 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.

If the camera is a mass storage device, it won't show up there. My
camera shows up as a SCSI (!) device - sda - that I can mount using a
dos filing system. There is then a specific layout to the directory
structure (I think cameras have baggsied specific names in there..), but
all my photos are just files I can the copy across.

> 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.

chkconfig just adds the 'hotplug' script to the various run-levels -
it's quite good actually (well, I like it). You can always start and
stop the service manually using '/etc/rc.d/init.d/hotplug start'.

I do have devfsd running, but nothing called hotplug (using Debian here
;) I've tried to get my camera out to confirm this all for you, but I
appear to have misplaced the lead. :(

Cheers,

Alex.


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