Canon A620, FreeBSD and gphoto2

[Predrag Punosevac]

You should try to mount your camera manually first as
su -
password
mount_msdosfs /dev/ugen0 /mnt

If you can not read the camera only then you should use gphoto2 but 
logged as a supper user to avoid
permission problems. If that fails i.e. if you get the message BLOCK 
DEVICE RECUIRED you
should try to use gphoto2.

This is step by step for my Sony Cyber-Shot W70
1. Change into PTP mode on camera
2. Go to su mode (this can be avoided but I left it so that my wife 
cannot mess with it)
3. gphoto2 --auto-detect will list your camera as Sony DSC-F707V (PTP 
mode) usb:
4. gphoto2 --help to get various commands
5 gphoto2 --L will list all the files in numerical order
6 gphoto2 --get-file=NUMBER Range (will get you files in that range)
7 WARNING you may need to issue the commands some time multiple times 
because
they fail. The following message is not uncommon
*** Error ***

Note you might not need to go to PTP mode for your particular camera!

If that fail then you can use cheap card reader which are well detected 
by FreeBSD.

There is an excellent thread that you can review 
http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12015&page=7&pp=15

maybe somebody left specific details for you camera but I think I gave 
you a big push:-)

Please let me know how it goes.

Predrag



Erin McNew wrote:
> I'm trying to get my Canon A620 camera to work with gphoto2 under FreeBSD.
>
> dmesg is telling me that my camera is /dev/ugen0.
>
> [osiris temp] gphoto2 --list-ports
> Devices found:
> 2
> Path                             Description
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ptpip:                           PTP/IP Connection
> usb:                             Universal Serial Bus
>
> [osiris temp] gphoto2 --port /dev/ugen0 -P
> *** Error ***
> An error occurred in the io-library ('I/O problem'): Failed to open
> '/dev/ugen0' (m).
> *** Error (-7: 'I/O problem') ***
>
> [osiris temp] gphoto2 -L
>
> 1
> *** Error ***
> An error occurred in the io-library ('Bad parameters'): Could not find USB
> device (vendor 0x4a9, product 0x30fc). Make sure this device is connected to
> the computer.
> *** Error (-2: 'Bad parameters') ***
>
> I tried using --debug, but it didn't seem to give me that much more detail,
> at least that I could understand.  I also tried specifying the port as "usb"
> and the camera as "Canon PowerShot A620 (PTP mode)" (as specified in gphoto2
> --list-cameras).  None of this worked.  Each gave me the "bad parameters"
> error, which is slightly frustrating.
>
> I believe that this could be due to the fact that the camera is being seen
> as ugen0 instead of usb.  Is there a way to cause it to be seen as usb?
>
> Thanks!
> ~Erin
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