[nylug-talk] [wwwac] HELP! I'll pay you to get this working... (fwd)

[Jay Sulzberger]

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  Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 13:57:53 -0500
  From: Martin Focazio <martyf at gmail.com>
  To: wwwac list <wwwac at lists.wwwac.org>
  Subject: [wwwac] HELP! I'll pay you to get this working...

  Situation:

  I have here an Ubuntu desktop that is for my son.  I have attempted -
  repeatedly - to get his "Digital Spy Camera" to transfer pictures to
  it.

  I have tantalizing hints that it works with the drivers I have on the system:

  http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=4265

  "The camera has been reported to me today (12/27/07) as working with
  libgphoto2/camlibs/sonix. Check it out by doing a Google for its name.
  There are some neat pictures of it out there. Camera attaches to a
  pair of sunglasses (included) and the shutter button is on a long wire
  so it can be kept in the pocket."

  I seem to have the Sonix driver in question installed:
  /usr/lib/libgphoto2/2.4.0/sonix.la
  /usr/lib/libgphoto2/2.4.0/sonix.so

  My device manager shows that the camera has been noticed, it's in
  /dev/usb/001/002, or at least it seems to be, but nothing (not gSane,
  not Digicam, not Picasa) seems to want to talk to the camera.

  However, my skills at determining how/if the camera driver is properly
  set up are sadly lacking. I did see the camera in the device manager,
  however, it's reporting as an "unknown" device.

  I'll pay someone to access this box remotely and get this working. The
  camera is connected. It's a point of contention in the house, as I
  gave away the very last Windows box last week, and I forgot that he
  used it to get the pictures off his toy and I'm in the doghouse here.

  Oh, optimally, OS X drivers would be the perfect solution, but it
  seems that there's no OS X support AT ALL out there, even at an
  experimental level.

  Contact me off-list, as anything with WWWAC in the subject line will
  be filtered and I might not see the answer.


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