[plug] USB & kernel questions

[Cameron Patrick]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:58:56PM +0800, Ryan wrote:

| When I plug it in I get the following, and whatever programs want to
| play with it can do so as a normal user:
| 
| hub.c: new USB device 00:10.0-1, assigned address 7
| usb.c: USB device 7 (vend/prod 0x40a/0x510) is not claimed by any active
| driver.
| usb.c: USB disconnect on device 00:10.0-1 address 7
| 
| What I DO know is that it uses 'PTP' (Picture Transfer Protocol) and
| this side-steps the USB mass-storage drivers, or something to that
| effect.  http://ptp.sourceforge.net/

I also have a PTP camera.  The messages are remarkably similar to the
ones that you see:

hub.c: new USB device 00:02.1-3, assigned address 3
usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x40a/0x525) is not claimed by any active driver.

When I plug it in, though, Kamera/Gtkam/Gphoto detect it fine, but can't
talk to it except when they run as root :-(  Aargh! What am I doing
wrong, then?

| I can also mount it as mass storage, then I presume some of the
| permissions problems start - but certainly not for simply reading it.

I'd have thought the reverse actually, mount is setuid root for a reason
:-)

Cameron.