[NBLUG/talk] H-P Digital Camera and Linux

[Mark Janes]

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Hello,

~   A few days ago, while at OfficeMax I saw a Hewlett-Packard 2.1
megapixel camera on sale fo $69 ($74 and change with tax). At first I
thought I might need to run a version of M$ to access the images, but by
switching the camera USB configuration from Digital Camera to Disk Drive
mode, as recommended for Macintosh users (the manual says this is
actually the Mass Storage Device Class standard), all I had to do in
Linux was hook the camera and computer together via USB cable. The
kernel automatically loaded the appropriate module and wrote an entry in
/etc/fstab, setting the device mount point of /media/sda1. After going
down a couple of directory levels I found all my images, which were
easily transferred to the images directory on my computer. Hope this
helps anyone who runs Linux and wants a digital camera which works
easily with this operating system. Also, while this is off-topic, while
tinkering with M$ Win98 I was reminded- and astonished- how brittle that
OS is:  it seemed to crash at the drop of a hat and required rebooting
to change even minor settings. No wonder so many people hate M$.
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