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by **Sch??n Mart** » Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:23:16

Dear experts,

I have just bought an Olympus mju-300 (aka stylus 300) and I have failed
to make it communicate with any of the three 'photo-programs' I found
in Mandrake 9.1. The camera is hooked up to the computer via USB and
the hardware config. utility of Mandrake identifies it correctly
but the programs ignore it and /mnt/camera is empty.

I have scanned google for 'olympus stylus 300 linux' but basically
only found a zillion copies of the same very positive 'private' 'review'
of the camera. Any leads will be greatfully accepted. Untill then I
will have to resort to booting into my Win98 to download pictures.

Cheers,

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by **Dances With Crow** » Thu, 25 Sep 2003 20:10:42

On 24 Sep 2003 09:23:16 +0200, Sch??n Martin staggered into the Black
Sun and said:

Quote:> I have just bought an Olympus mju-300 (aka stylus 300) and I have
> failed to make it communicate with any of the three 'photo-programs' I
> found in Mandrake 9.1.

Did these "photo-programs" have names? What, exactly, did you try?

Quote:> The camera is hooked up to the computer via USB and the hardware
> config. utility of Mandrake identifies it correctly but the programs
> ignore it and /mnt/camera is empty.

/mnt/camera will be empty until you mount something on it. Did you try
"mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera"? Do that. If that doesn't work, post the
output of "lsmod", "dmesg | tail -20" right after you've plugged the
camera in, and "cat /proc/scsi/scsi". Also,
http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search groups comp.os.linux.*
keywords "USB Mass Storage" may help you.

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by **Dave Ulric** » Fri, 26 Sep 2003 00:26:52

On 24 Sep 2003 09:23:16 +0200,

Quote:
> Dear experts,

> I have just bought an Olympus mju-300 (aka stylus 300) and I have failed
> to make it communicate with any of the three 'photo-programs' I found
> in Mandrake 9.1. The camera is hooked up to the computer via USB and
> the hardware config. utility of Mandrake identifies it correctly
> but the programs ignore it and /mnt/camera is empty.

> I have scanned google for 'olympus stylus 300 linux' but basically
> only found a zillion copies of the same very positive 'private' 'review'
> of the camera. Any leads will be greatfully accepted. Untill then I
> will have to resort to booting into my Win98 to download pictures.

I have a different model of Olympus digital camera. Until recently,
I had the same type of problem you're experiencing. The Olympus digital
cameras are USB mass storage devices, and are detected as such by Linux.
As I understand it, USB mass storage devices are supposed to pass a
signature of 'USBS', but the Olympus cameras pass a value of 'USBU'
instead, a value the Linux usb-storage support didn't recognize.
The newer Linux kernels include a fix for this problem.

I'm running 2.4.22 on one of my systems. That kernel release contains
the fix. From drivers/usb/storage/transport.h:

#define US_BULK_CS_SIGN 0x53425355 /* spells out 'USBS' */
/* This is for Olympus Camedia digital cameras */
#define US_BULK_CS_OLYMPUS_SIGN 0x55425355 /* spells out 'USBU' */

Since upgrading to a kernel with this fix, my Olympus camera works well
with Linux.

Dave
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Web: http://www.niu.edu/~ulrick/

by **Dave Ulric** » Fri, 26 Sep 2003 00:28:50

On 24 Sep 2003 09:23:16 +0200,

Quote:
> Dear experts,

> I have just bought an Olympus mju-300 (aka stylus 300) and I have failed
> to make it communicate with any of the three 'photo-programs' I found
> in Mandrake 9.1. The camera is hooked up to the computer via USB and
> the hardware config. utility of Mandrake identifies it correctly
> but the programs ignore it and /mnt/camera is empty.

> I have scanned google for 'olympus stylus 300 linux' but basically
> only found a zillion copies of the same very positive 'private' 'review'
> of the camera. Any leads will be greatfully accepted. Untill then I
> will have to resort to booting into my Win98 to download pictures.

I have a different model of Olympus digital camera. Until recently,
I had the same type of problem you're experiencing. The Olympus digital
cameras are USB mass storage devices, and are detected as such by Linux.
As I understand it, USB mass storage devices are supposed to pass a
signature of 'USBS', but the Olympus cameras pass a value of 'USBU'
instead, a value the Linux usb-storage support didn't recognize.
The newer Linux kernels include a fix for this problem.

I'm running 2.4.22 on one of my systems. That kernel release contains
the fix. From drivers/usb/storage/transport.h:

#define US_BULK_CS_SIGN 0x53425355 /* spells out 'USBS' */
/* This is for Olympus Camedia digital cameras */
#define US_BULK_CS_OLYMPUS_SIGN 0x55425355 /* spells out 'USBU' */

Since upgrading to a kernel with this fix, my Olympus camera works well
with Linux.

Dave
--
Dave Ulrick

Web: http://www.niu.edu/~ulrick/

by **Dave Ulric** » Fri, 26 Sep 2003 00:32:14

On 24 Sep 2003 09:23:16 +0200,

Quote:
> Dear experts,

> I have just bought an Olympus mju-300 (aka stylus 300) and I have failed
> to make it communicate with any of the three 'photo-programs' I found
> in Mandrake 9.1. The camera is hooked up to the computer via USB and
> the hardware config. utility of Mandrake identifies it correctly
> but the programs ignore it and /mnt/camera is empty.

> I have scanned google for 'olympus stylus 300 linux' but basically
> only found a zillion copies of the same very positive 'private' 'review'
> of the camera. Any leads will be greatfully accepted. Untill then I
> will have to resort to booting into my Win98 to download pictures.

I have a different model of Olympus digital camera. Until recently,
I had the same type of problem you're experiencing. The Olympus digital
cameras are USB mass storage devices, and are detected as such by Linux.
As I understand it, USB mass storage devices are supposed to pass a
signature of 'USBS', but the Olympus cameras pass a value of 'USBU'
instead, a value the Linux usb-storage support didn't recognize.
The newer Linux kernels include a fix for this problem.

I'm running 2.4.22 on one of my systems. That kernel release contains
the fix. From drivers/usb/storage/transport.h:

#define US_BULK_CS_SIGN 0x53425355 /* spells out 'USBS' */
/* This is for Olympus Camedia digital cameras */
#define US_BULK_CS_OLYMPUS_SIGN 0x55425355 /* spells out 'USBU' */

Since upgrading to a kernel with this fix, my Olympus camera works well
with Linux.

Dave
--
Dave Ulrick

Web: http://www.niu.edu/~ulrick/

by **Dave Ulric** » Fri, 26 Sep 2003 01:39:31

On 24 Sep 2003 09:23:16 +0200,

Quote:
> Dear experts,

> I have just bought an Olympus mju-300 (aka stylus 300) and I have failed
> to make it communicate with any of the three 'photo-programs' I found
> in Mandrake 9.1. The camera is hooked up to the computer via USB and
> the hardware config. utility of Mandrake identifies it correctly
> but the programs ignore it and /mnt/camera is empty.

> I have scanned google for 'olympus stylus 300 linux' but basically
> only found a zillion copies of the same very positive 'private' 'review'
> of the camera. Any leads will be greatfully accepted. Untill then I
> will have to resort to booting into my Win98 to download pictures.

I have a different model of Olympus digital camera. Until recently,
I had the same type of problem you're experiencing. The Olympus digital
cameras are USB mass storage devices, and are detected as such by Linux.
As I understand it, USB mass storage devices are supposed to pass a
signature of 'USBS', but the Olympus cameras pass a value of 'USBU'
instead, a value the Linux usb-storage support didn't recognize.
The newer Linux kernels include a fix for this problem.

I'm running 2.4.22 on one of my systems. That kernel release contains
the fix. From drivers/usb/storage/transport.h:

#define US_BULK_CS_SIGN 0x53425355 /* spells out 'USBS' */
/* This is for Olympus Camedia digital cameras */
#define US_BULK_CS_OLYMPUS_SIGN 0x55425355 /* spells out 'USBU' */

Since upgrading to a kernel with this fix, my Olympus camera works well
with Linux.

Dave
--
Dave Ulrick

Web: http://www.niu.edu/~ulrick/

by **Dave Ulric** » Fri, 26 Sep 2003 04:43:19

On 24 Sep 2003 09:23:16 +0200,

Quote:
> Dear experts,

> I have just bought an Olympus mju-300 (aka stylus 300) and I have failed
> to make it communicate with any of the three 'photo-programs' I found
> in Mandrake 9.1. The camera is hooked up to the computer via USB and
> the hardware config. utility of Mandrake identifies it correctly
> but the programs ignore it and /mnt/camera is empty.

> I have scanned google for 'olympus stylus 300 linux' but basically
> only found a zillion copies of the same very positive 'private' 'review'
> of the camera. Any leads will be greatfully accepted. Untill then I
> will have to resort to booting into my Win98 to download pictures.

I have a different model of Olympus digital camera. Until recently,
I had the same type of problem you're experiencing. The Olympus digital
cameras are USB mass storage devices, and are detected as such by Linux.
As I understand it, USB mass storage devices are supposed to pass a
signature of 'USBS', but the Olympus cameras pass a value of 'USBU'
instead, a value the Linux usb-storage support didn't recognize.
The newer Linux kernels include a fix for this problem.

I'm running 2.4.22 on one of my systems. That kernel release contains
the fix. From drivers/usb/storage/transport.h:

#define US_BULK_CS_SIGN 0x53425355 /* spells out 'USBS' */
/* This is for Olympus Camedia digital cameras */
#define US_BULK_CS_OLYMPUS_SIGN 0x55425355 /* spells out 'USBU' */

Since upgrading to a kernel with this fix, my Olympus camera works well
with Linux.

Dave
--
Dave Ulrick

Web: http://www.niu.edu/~ulrick/

by **Dave Ulric** » Fri, 26 Sep 2003 04:50:19

[the same thing over and over again :-( ]

Sorry about the multiple posts! As far as I could tell, only the
last post was successfully posted; 'slrn' told me that the other posts
had failed.

Dave
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Dave Ulrick

Web: http://www.niu.edu/~ulrick/

by **Sch??n Mart** » Fri, 26 Sep 2003 15:53:43

Dances With Crows <danSPANceswitTRAPhcr...@usa.net> writes:

> On 24 Sep 2003 09:23:16 +0200, Sch??n Martin staggered into the Black
> Sun and said:
> > I have just bought an Olympus mju-300 (aka stylus 300) and I have
> > failed to make it communicate with any of the three 'photo-programs' I
> > found in Mandrake 9.1.

> Did these "photo-programs" have names? What, exactly, did you try?

Right, sorry about that. This computer and the one I try to hook
up to the camera are some 6 km away from each other - a gap
my memory refused to span. The programs tested were:

FLPhoto, GPhoto & GTKam

> > The camera is hooked up to the computer via USB and the hardware
> > config. utility of Mandrake identifies it correctly but the programs
> > ignore it and /mnt/camera is empty.

> /mnt/camera will be empty until you mount something on it. Did you try
> "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera"? Do that. If that doesn't work, post the
> output of "lsmod", "dmesg | tail -20" right after you've plugged the
> camera in, and "cat /proc/scsi/scsi". Also,
> http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search groups comp.os.linux.*
> keywords "USB Mass Storage" may help you.

Good lead but no progress so far. Here is what I have tried (picked
up from an earlier post of yours):

[root@localhost martin]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera

I didn't notice any improvement in the visibility of the files in
/mnt/camera so I ran throught the other command listed above:

[root@localhost martin]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1 3516 0 (autoclean)
sd_mod 13100 0
scsimon 9280 0 (unused)
usb-storage 72952 0
ipt_ttl 1176 1 (autoclean)
ipt_unclean 7416 2 (autoclean)
ipt_limit 1560 34 (autoclean)
ipt_state 1080 5 (autoclean)
iptable_mangle 2712 0 (unused)
ipt_LOG 4280 1
ipt_MASQUERADE 2104 0 (unused)
ipt_TOS 1592 0 (unused)
ipt_REDIRECT 1336 0 (unused)
iptable_nat 21048 0 [ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT]
ipt_REJECT 3640 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_irc 4304 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack_ftp 5200 0 (unused)
ip_conntrack 27264 4 [ipt_state ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_REDIRECT
iptable_nat ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp]
ppp_deflate 4408 0 (autoclean)
zlib_inflate 21156 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
zlib_deflate 21144 0 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
bsd_comp 5336 0 (autoclean)
udf 90464 0 (autoclean)
iptable_filter 2348 1 (autoclean)
ip_tables 14648 14 [ipt_ttl ipt_unclean ipt_limit ipt_state
iptable_mangle ipt_LOG ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_TOS ipt_REDIRECT iptable_nat
ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
parport_pc 25096 1 (autoclean)
lp 8096 0 (autoclean)
parport 34176 1 (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
snd-seq-oss 31104 0 (unused)
snd-seq-midi-event 5640 0 [snd-seq-oss]
snd-seq 42608 2 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event]
snd-pcm-oss 43556 0
snd-mixer-oss 14488 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
snd-via82xx 14092 0
snd-ac97-codec 40160 0 [snd-via82xx]
snd-pcm 77536 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-via82xx]
snd-timer 18376 0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
snd-mpu401-uart 4396 0 [snd-via82xx]
snd-rawmidi 17600 0 [snd-mpu401-uart]
snd-seq-device 5832 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq snd-rawmidi]
snd-page-alloc 7732 0 [snd-via82xx snd-pcm]
snd 40868 0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq
snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-via82xx snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm snd-timer
snd-mpu401-uart snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device]
soundcore 6276 0 [snd]
ppp_async 9216 0
ppp_generic 24060 0 [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async]
slhc 6564 0 [ppp_generic]
af_packet 14952 2 (autoclean)
sr_mod 16920 0 (autoclean)
floppy 55132 0
8139too 17160 1 (autoclean)
mii 3832 0 (autoclean) [8139too]
ohci1394 19048 0 (unused)
ieee1394 45900 0 [ohci1394]
nls_utf8 1312 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5148 1 (autoclean)
vfat 11820 1 (autoclean)
fat 37944 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
supermount 15296 2 (autoclean)
ide-cd 33856 0
cdrom 31648 0 [sr_mod ide-cd]
ide-scsi 11280 0
scsi_mod 103284 5 [sd_mod scsimon usb-storage sr_mod ide-scsi]
printer 8448 0
ehci-hcd 18568 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 24652 0 (unused)
usbcore 72992 1 [usb-storage printer ehci-hcd usb-uhci]
rtc 8060 0 (autoclean)
ext3 59916 2
jbd 38972 2 [ext3]
[root@localhost martin]# dmesg | tail -20
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
cdrom: open failed.
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
cdrom: open failed.
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
cdrom: open failed.
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
cdrom: open failed.
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
cdrom: open failed.
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
cdrom: open failed.
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
cdrom: open failed.
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
cdrom: open failed.
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
cdrom: open failed.
end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0
cdrom: open failed.
[root@localhost martin]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-320A Rev: 1.03
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: OLYMPUS Model: u10D,S300D,u300D Rev: 1012
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Now you probably know more about my computer and system than I do :-)
And if Dave Ulrick is to believed all this in vain because I run
kernel 2.4.21.

Cheers,

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Martin Sch??n <Martin.Sch...@ericsson.com>

"Problems worthy of attack
prove their worth by hitting back"
Piet Hein
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