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Date:      Mon, 18 Nov 2002 22:31:06 -0500 (EST)
From:      John Bleichert <syborg@stny.rr.com>
To:        Carl Newman <carl@one.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sony camera
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0211182225340.7732-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
In-Reply-To: <3DD99F97.7040106@one.com.au>

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On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Carl Newman wrote:

> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:19:03 +1000
> From: Carl Newman <carl@one.com.au>
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Sony camera
> 
> Hi my name is Carl Newman I have very recently started using freeBSD and 
> I am having trouble understanding it.
> I have a Sony DSC-P51 camera and I can't get the images from the camera 
> to the computer via the USB slot.
> I can get the images in windows but not in bsd please help.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Carl Newman
> 

You'll need to use an application such as gphoto to view images on your 
camera, I think. Check it's web page to see if your model is supported:

http://www.gphoto.org/cameras.html

If it is, you may have to add support to your kernel to use it. The 
devices aren't enabled "out of the box" yet. BSD proceeds from a "minimum 
install, add extra device support afterward" direction, rather than 
supporting lots of hardware from a generic install. Cleaner, more 
efficient, but ocassionally a little busier :)

If your camera is supported, use the handbook to learn how to build your 
own kernel (it's easy, and a rite of passage) and then you'll need to ad 
at least usb and umass support to the kernel. 

I'm not too experienced with cameras yet, but that's the general chain of 
events.

Good luck!

#  John Bleichert 
#  http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg


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