[ltp] OK, flummoxed with Canon A70, hotplug, R32, Debian

[ravi channavajhala]

I was in the same boat as you were until 2 hours ago. 
I can't get the gphoto to see my Canon powershot G2. 
Walked into a Best Buy, forked out 12.99 for a SanDisk
PCMCIA Card adapter for CF.

Came home, plugged in the card adapter along with the
CF and lo behold all my problems just disappeared. 
The CF reader appeared as /dev/hde

Apr 15 22:27:23 lambodara cardmgr[543]: executing:
'modprobe ide-cs'
Apr 15 22:27:25 lambodara kernel: hde: SanDisk
SDCFB-32, ATA DISK drive

[root at lambodara root]# sfdisk -l /dev/hde

Disk /dev/hde: 490 cylinders, 4 heads, 32
sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 65536 bytes, blocks of 1024
bytes, counting from 0

   Device Boot Start     End   #cyls    #blocks   Id 
System
/dev/hde1   *      0+    488     489-     31280    4 
FAT16 <32M
/dev/hde2          0       -       0          0    0 
Empty
/dev/hde3          0       -       0          0    0 
Empty
/dev/hde4          0       -       0          0    0 
Empty

one more step

[root at lambodara root]# mount -t vfat /dev/hde1
/mnt/flash

Now I'm gimping away with the images.  I'd enough of
putzing around with USB readers.

regards,
-ravi

--- Mitchell Gil Maltenfort <mmalten at comcast.net>
wrote:
> 
> I took the plunge and bought a Canon PowerShot A70. 
> 
> 
> I also purchased a lexarmedia (it's what Ritz photo
> had on hand) compact-flash reader.
> 
> And I've been fighting this puppy for about an hour
> and a half.
> 
> I have installed hotplug.  I have installed both the
> Debian gphoto and gphoto2 packages. I have tried to
> follow the instructions at www.gphoto.org, even
> though they were written for a slightly newer
> version of gphoto than I have.
> 
> I have stuck the output of gphoto2
> --print-usb-usermap into /etc/hotplug/usb.usermap.  
> 
> I have installed usbcore, usb-uhci in my
> /etc/modules.  (usb-ohci has an unresolved error).
> 
> I am running 2.4.20, Debian default kernel with
> testing upgrades, 686 version, and USB itself seems
> happy. lspci gives me a USB Controller: Intel Corp
> 82801CA/CAM USB. gphoto2--list-ports finds 1 device
> called 'usb:' and described as a Universal Serial
> Bus.  
> 
> Can we say I'm frustrated?  Hotplug can't find a
> module to use the camera, and I can't get the
> computer to recognize that the card reader even
> exists.
> 
> 
> Can someone give me a step by step guide, preferably
> tailored for cranky idiots, for getting the flash
> card reader to talk to my laptop?  I've tried the
> USB port on the left and the USB port in the back --
> beats me which is '1' and which is '3' -- and
> neither works.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
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