From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 16:15:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48B3216A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:15:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from m5.nyc.untd.com (m5.nyc.untd.com [64.136.22.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5B83443D46 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:15:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jrrelay@juno.com) Received: from cookie.untd.com by cookie.untd.com for <"R9CnQVXkTy4RC5ELwduHufxtT3QIxiA+GOiVxmeZhLeqkfHfAejVvw==">; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:14:44 PST Received: (from jrrelay@juno.com) by m5.nyc.untd.com (jqueuemail) id JLAY5F48; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:14:44 PST To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:14:00 -0600 Message-ID: <20040119.181402.-176941.2.jrrelay@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 14 X-Juno-Att: 0 X-Juno-RefParts: 0 From: jrrelay@juno.com Subject: Re: Digital USB Camera X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 00:15:41 -0000 i recently got a hp digital camera having a usb interface. it has small amount of internal memory but also has a 128mb SD (smart-digital) card. there is a cdrom which comes with the camera which has the windoze program to retrieve the photos. I also have a small usb reader for the sd cards. if i take the usb card out of the camera and put it in the reader, i can gather the pictures. i have not yet tried to gather them through the camera. the puzzle for bsd will be discovering the device name to use when mounting the device. it may be (and this is only a guess) necessary to have the camera connected to the usb port while starting bsd and watching the installed devices roll by as the start proceeds. there is some program which captures many of the start-up messages for later review -- the name is something like 'dmesg'. i know that with linux the usb storage devices which i have are considered to be scsi devices or maybe just have a device name somewhat like a device name for a scsi device.