J.F.Gratton wrote: > I just bought an Olympus D520Z digital cam, and of course, it doesn't > come with anything Linux-related. To transfer pictures from the cam to > my PC I'd have to use Windows, which I'd like to avoid as much as > possible. > > Since in Windows my camera appears as a removable drive, I figured that > I'd have to compile the usb-storage.o (USB mass storage device) module > to get it working in linux, but as soon as I modprobe the module, it > just hangs; the system is still responsive everywhere else, I just lose > the console where I typed modprobe. All other USB-related modules are > prealably loaded since my keyboard and mouse are USB-connected. > > Is there something I miss or what ? Is there anybody else that uses that > camera on linux ? You might get faster answers to questions like these if you search Google first. As it happens, "Olympus D520Z USB Linux" turns up the following page as the very first result: http://software.jodda.de/camediac220.html which explains that the D520Z, like many other Olympus cameras, has a defective USB implementation that the Linux USB code doesn't handle well. There is a workaround, but it involves making your computer incompatible with other USB storage devices. My daughter has another model of Olympus digital camera that neither Windows nor Linux can reliably talk to because of this same problem. Our solution was to buy a SmartMedia card reader that works with Linux, and use that rather than plugging the camera directly into the computer. The SanDisk SDDR-75 is an inexpensive reader for both SmartMedia and CompactFlash cards that works very nicely for us. The only little trick it requires is that you have to make sure your Linux kernel was compiled with support for multiple-LUN SCSI devices (CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN), since the SmartMedia slot appears as a second LUN. Craig
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