Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2002 09:11:08 -0400 From: Jason Andresen <jandrese@mitre.org> To: Evan Sarmiento <evms@cs.bu.edu> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP Photosmart 215 Message-ID: <3D4A84EC.6B5C6DA0@mitre.org> References: <200208012240.g71Me9B03313@csa.bu.edu>
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Evan Sarmiento wrote: > > Hello. > > Does FreeBSD has support for the HP photosmart 215 USB digital > camera? I doubt it, as I think I've tried before. I guess > a solution would be to use a usb flash card reader and > take the pictures from the camera like that, but, > I was just curious if it was indeed supported or if > there are any 3rd party drivers available for that camera. Have you tried gphoto? Even though your camera isn't listed in the "supported" list, many cameras use the same protocol as other cameras in their product line. I'd just try them all to see if one works. Supposedly some HP cameras will come up as umass, in which case all you would have to do is plug the camera in and mount it like a drive. Unfortunatly the digitial camera industry is still in the propretary protcols stage of life. Almost every camera has it's own custom protocol that they jealously guard for some reason. I was hoping by now that the manufacturers would get tired of supporting dozens of protocols and finally come up with an open standard, but so far there has been no sign of this happening. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message
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