[plug] ** February Hacker Night Notice **

[Onno Benschop]

Bret Busby wrote:

> I am no Linux hacker, so my statements below, are as a layman.
>
> It is my understanding that any digital camera that has a USB 
> interface, will (relatively) easily interface with Linux - it just 
> needs mounting as a USB storage device, and a script to upload the 
> images. HOWTO's exist.

That is one way of making it work and it doesn't work for all USB 
cameras. Another way of making it work is using the USB-PTP protocol 
which gphoto2 implements. Unfortunately the USB sub-system has this 
hair-brained system that has the USB ids hard-coded into the module, so 
you can only add newer USB devices by changing the source code and 
recompiling, which is always fun.

I do believe that there are other detection methods, but I have not used 
them on my machine.

It is entirely possible that in my retelling of the above I've made all 
manner of factual errors, but that is how I recall it to be when I tried 
connecting two different Sony Clie's, a Sony Digital Camera, a 
"universal" USB card reader and a USB bluetooth adapter as well as a USB 
wireless adapter.

You can make it work, but it isn't plug and play in my experience.

> I would think that, providing the Linux distribution is compatible 
> with the standard drivers (eg, hpojs), the printers that are 
> designated as compatible with linux, at linuxprinting.org (is that the 
> correct domain name for the HOWTO ?), would work equally with the 
> distribution.

Yeah, except it doesn't in my experience.

> Are my beliefs correct?

No, they are based on how it should be, not on how it is ;-)

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