Kodak easyshare CX7300 digital camera

[dialtone]

I have a Kodak easyshare CX7300 digital camera and I'm trying to connect it to my PC. I'm running on Redhat Linux 9. When I go to control centre under information; usb devices, the camera picks up, but I'm unable to access the images under peripherals. There it detect a "USB PTP class camera". If i want to test or configure the camera there it give me a msg "Unable to initialize camera. Check your port settings and camera connectivity and try agian"
I tried to search on google but could not find anything relevant.Can you please help me to get this working.

Thank you in advance for the help.

[dylunio]

Try mounting the camera;

[dialtone]

I suspect i automounted (i did not mount it myself, not sure how *newbie*)

But the output of

 cat /proc/bus/usb/devices

show the following :

 cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
T:  Bus=03 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=480 MxCh= 8
B:  Alloc=  0/800 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.04
S:  Manufacturer=Linux 2.4.20-6 ehci-hcd
S:  Product=PCI device 10de:0088 (nVidia Corporation)
S:  SerialNumber=00:02.2
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=256ms
T:  Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 4
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S:  Product=USB OHCI Root Hub
S:  SerialNumber=d084c000
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=255ms
T:  Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 4
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S:  Product=USB OHCI Root Hub
S:  SerialNumber=d084a000
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=255ms
T:  Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#=  9 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=16 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=040a ProdID=0578 Rev= 1.00
S:  Manufacturer=Eastman Kodak Company
S:  Product=KODAK EasyShare CX7300 Digital Camera
S:  SerialNumber=CX730X8913347
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=06(still) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none)
E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=04(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=85(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=  64 Ivl=16ms

If you look at line "S" it show the camera there? Do i still need to mount it, if so, please tell me how.

Thank you.

[dylunio]

What does your fstab look like in /etc/fstab?

[dialtone]

What does your fstab look like in /etc/fstab?

cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,r                                            o 0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

[dialtone]

I allso created a directory calles "camera" in the "mnt" directory:

[root@localhost mnt]# ls
camera  cdrom  floppy

When i then try to :

 mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera

i get :

 mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

[dylunio]

Lets try mounting the drive(camera);

Before you plug in your USB cable, do the following;

su
tail -f /var/log/messages

Now plug in the USB cable, you should get something like this;

Jun 18 15:23:29 kernel: hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2
Jun 18 15:23:30 kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jun 18 15:23:30 kernel: Vendor: NIKON Model: NIKON DSC E995 Rev: 1.00
Jun 18 15:23:30 kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jun 18 15:23:30 kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jun 18 15:23:30 kernel: SCSI device sda: 500736 512-byte hdwr sectors (256 MB)
Jun 18 15:23:30 kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Jun 18 15&#58;23&#58;30 kernel&#58; sda&#58;<7>usb-storage&#58; queuecommand&#40;&#41; called

The important line in this is something that looks like:

Jun 18 15:23:30 kernel: SCSI device sda: 500736 512-byte hdwr sectors (256 MB)

This tells you that you have - in this case - a sda drive.
To mount lets call it sda1 as do the following;

cd /mnt/
su
mkdir camera
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera

That should mount the drive, to look at the drive type:

ls camera

Then add this to the fstab:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/camera vfat noauto,users,ro,umask=0 0 0

dylunio


[edit] Ahh, I see you've tried to mount it by now, I don't know what's wrong [/edit]

[dylunio]

Been looking around on the web, and other people who have had the problem with 'ot a valid block device' error with cameras, have found that there camera's hde, and not sda to the computer;
So look around and see if it's a hd on your computer;

dylunio

[dialtone]

This is what i get from

 tail -f /var/log/messages

 Nov 28 14:39:25 localhost kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:02.0-1, assigned addr                                            ess 17
Nov 28 14:39:25 localhost kernel: usb.c: USB device 17 (vend/prod 0x40a/0x578) i                                            s not claimed by any active driver.
Nov 28 14:39:29 localhost kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Nov 28 14:39:29 localhost kernel: usb-ohci.c: unlink URB timeout
Nov 28 14:39:29 localhost kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout
Nov 28 14:39:29 localhost kernel: usb-ohci.c: unlink URB timeout
Nov 28 14:39:29 localhost /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: ... no modules for USB product                                             40a/578/100

Anybody ellse any other ideas, please?

[dylunio]

Read above? ^^