Mounting Canon Powershot Digital Camera

TuxGirl tuxgirl at gmail.com
Wed Dec 28 22:32:10 PST 2005


I'm trying to figure out how to mount my camera, and I seem to be
coming up empty.  Here's the info that I got from attaching, and then
detaching the camera from my system:

Dec 28 23:18:41 amon-re kernel: ugen1: Canon Inc. Canon Digital
Camera, rev 2.00/0.02, addr 2
Dec 28 23:18:43 amon-re kernel: ugen1: at uhub4 port 4 (addr 2) disconnected
Dec 28 23:18:43 amon-re kernel: All threads purged from ugen1.3
Dec 28 23:18:43 amon-re kernel: All threads purged from ugen1.2
Dec 28 23:18:43 amon-re kernel: All threads purged from ugen1.1
Dec 28 23:18:43 amon-re kernel: All threads purged from ugen1
Dec 28 23:18:43 amon-re kernel: ugen1: detached

I'm running FreeBSD 6.0, and I'm fairly new to *bsd.
I tried mounting /dev/ugen1 (which only exists when the camera is
plugged in), as well as /dev/ugen.1, etc.  I also tried /dev/usb. 
Each of them complains that a block device is required.  Someone on
#freebsd suggested that i try giving it a -t flag, so I tried -t vfat
(which apparently isn't correct on freebsd), then -t msdosfs, but
received the same error with that.

I'm feeling a bit stumped about this, currently.

Thanks in advance,
~TuxGirl


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