Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 15:03:28 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> To: Steve Brown <freebsd@prayforwind.com> Cc: FreeBSD LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.Org> Subject: Re: USB Digital camera, how? Message-ID: <20020505150000.G81507-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> In-Reply-To: <20020505181443.EJVX21254.tomts12-srv.bellnexxia.net@there>
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On Sun, 5 May 2002, Steve Brown wrote: > Hello there, I'm trying to figure out how to use a digital camera. I open a window with tail -f /var/log/messages, plug the camera in and disconnect it, I get this: > May 5 14:02:32 prayforwind /kernel: ugen0: Canon Inc. PowerShot A40, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2 > May 5 14:06:17 prayforwind /kernel: ugen0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 2) disconnected > May 5 14:06:17 prayforwind /kernel: ugen0: detached Does `dmesg -a` see the digicam at boot time? Are you doing this as root or from userland? If it is the latter, you must enable the usbd in /etc/rc.conf > What now, do I mount ugen0? How do I do that (it's telling me "block device required") Any help would definitely be appreciated, thanks! > Cheers, Steve You could try `cd /dev ; sh MAKEDEV ugen0` or something like that.... > $ uname -a > FreeBSD prayforwind.com 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 10 20:17:44 EST 2002 root@prayforwind.prayforwind.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/HP8360 i386 Good luck, oh, and are you running X? I'm not sure if graphical USB stuff (scanners, digicams, etc) work well as command line captures. -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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