2009/10/5 MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop:
Oh well, I'm stumped. There's a comment over on http://qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2862 of "chose MSDC protocol on the Camera settings" by Damien Hardy but I guess you've already done that. Also, I think you want to modprobe sd rather than scsi_mod, but I would expect usb_storage to pull that in. Maybe it's built into the kernel? Could find out with "zgrep CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD /proc/config.gz"
Thanks, Mark.
I have finally got this working. I don't know why it works but it does!
Ubuntu keep their config in /boot/ so I went and had a look and the CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD was set to yes. I went to check out other kernelly stuff available using apt, though, and duly installed linux-backports-modules-2.6.28-15-generic.
Plugging in the camera now showed the device scan as completed, rather than waiting to settle. No device was assigned to it though, still, so I tried setting the camera to use camera over usb rather than MSDC and - it now worked. This option had previously done nothing.
Thanks,
Jenny