Olympus D-540 camera + umass = crash

[Toomas Aas]

Lars Eighner wrote:

> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Toomas Aas wrote:
> 
>> Sunday 05 April 2009 10:29:10 kirjutas Lars Eighner:
>>
>>> A number of upgrade cycles ago, when I loaded umass, I could plug in my
>>> Olympus D-540 camera.  It would be recognized as a da device and 
>>> could be
>>> mounted as a FAT drive (i.e. msdosfs).
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> Eventually the HPLIP driver was improved to the point that it broke the
>>> scan, fax, and card reader functions.  But it still works as a printer.
>>> Meanwhile it seems umass was upgraded to the point that it can no longer
>>> use the camera.  So I cannot get photos out of my camera either way.
>>
>> Can you set the camera to PTP mode?
> 
> I don't know what that is, so I suppose the answer is no.

Well, maybe it isn't - have you checked the manual of your camera?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Transfer_Protocol

> 
>> If so, you may be able to use gtkam to get photos out of the camera.  
>> It's
>> the only way my RELENG_7 box is able to talk to my Nikon Coolpix L5, 
>> which
>> caused the machine to crash when used in umass mode
>> (http://lnk.nu/freebsd.org/u9q.cgi).
> 
> Did it work on previous releases?

It did work with FreeBSD 6.x, but that was on another PC so I don't know 
whether it's the FreeBSD version or USB controller hardware that makes the 
difference in my case.

> 
> My camera worked on some release in the past and many releases prior to
> that.  Somebody broke umass.  All I am asking of that person is: when did
> you break umass, so I can downgrade to just before that.
> 

I'm not trying to "justify" FreeBSD, just suggesting a possible alternative.

-- 
Toomas Aas