mounting a Nikon camera

[jeremy bentham <dnw@eskimo.com>]

>From time to time threads appear here describing troubles mounting
digital cameras.  I never paid much attention to them, because I didn't
have a digital camera and had no intention of acquiring one.

Time makes liars of us all, I guess.  I now have a Nikon L30, and I
can't get my Lenny machine (yeah, yeah, I know....) to mount it.

I also have an ancient McApple, and all I have to to do there is connect
the camera, and iPhotos opens and gives me access to the SD card.

The machine sees the camera:  in /dev, the following appears when I
connect it (at 2014-07-26 20:16):

crw-rw-rw- 1 root root      5,   2 2014-07-26 20:16 ptmx
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root        2880 2014-07-26 20:16 char
crw-rw---- 1 root root    252,  12 2014-07-26 20:16 usbdev3.66_ep00
crw-rw---- 1 root root    252,  11 2014-07-26 20:16 usbdev3.66_ep82
crw-rw---- 1 root root    252,   9 2014-07-26 20:16 usbdev3.66_ep01
crw-rw---- 1 root root    252,  10 2014-07-26 20:16 usbdev3.66_ep81

Note, no new block device.

And in /proc/bus/usb, a stanza in devices:

T:  Bus=03 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 66 Spd=480 MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=04b0 ProdID=0357 Rev= 1.00
S:  Manufacturer=NIKON
S:  Product=NIKON DSC COOLPIX L30-PTP
S:  SerialNumber=000030067027
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=500mA
I:* If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=06(still) Sub=01 Prot=01 Driver=(none)
E:  Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=82(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   8 Ivl=4096ms

Does that "Driver=(none)" mean I'm hosed?

So, the computer knows the camera is connected.  It just won't let me
*do* anything with it.

Whaddo I do?

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