Thanks for doing this. I haven't had a chance to really get my act together. Brought the new year in with either food poisoning or norwalk. Either way... deeeeeeeesssgusting! Just starting to feel human again now.

I did have my unit seemingly reboot on me quite a few times when I tried to fetch images from the camera.

Incidentally, my camera died on a wedding this weekend so I had to get a 40d. Trying gphoto2, it works for fetching the files and that's it. Also, while connected, it will disable your ability to use the camera for anything else. The 20d was great since I could download while I was shooting. All in due time, no doubt.

How farfetched would it be to try these binaries under 2007HE? It would be very useful for my perpetual road trip...

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I went ahead and 'installed'. It's working totally fine, but as of yet I don't have the USB host mode hack installed or a camera to test with. If this could work...I'd be able to take pictures, upload them to the camera and then the net! I'd be stoked! Thanks for making your ports available!

Basis some requests from the gphoto2 community, I have struggled to go one step further and compile newer versions of 'libgphoto2' (2.4.0.4) and 'gphoto2' (2.4.0.1) from the SVN 'trunk' directory (heck, there is a first time for everything!). Of course, new challenges occured (nothing is every easy!). I updated my README and tar.gz files accordingly:

http://members.shaw.ca/dmenns2/README.libgphoto2.dare
http://members.shaw.ca/dmenns2/README.gphoto2.dare
http://members.shaw.ca/dmenns2/libgphoto2.tar.gz
http://members.shaw.ca/dmenns2/gphoto2.tar.gz

Nope, this does NOT appear to improve my success using this tool i.e. reboots still occur with my N800. Also, although I *think* I was able to '--capture-image' with my Coolpix 4300, I am no longer able to do so. My Coolpix 4500 does capture, but has other problems.

darethehair,

I tried your earlier packages in N810 with Canon Digital IXUS 400. Some commands worked, but when tryin e.g. gphoto2 -l command I get error 'Could not claim the USB device'. N810 reboots also easily when trying gphoto2 commans.

'Could not claim the USB device' is discussed in http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html I was not able to solve the error but i suppose the rebooting may have something to do with conflicts in USB?

-kepler

I have just been trying to connect my Canon 300D to my N810. Copied and installed the files from the links above, when running Gphoto to a debug file, I continually get the error, can't open ?home/user/.gphoto/settings. I have tried chmod'ing the folders no luck. In the log file it also states it has no settings for the IOLIB. Any ideas.

Sorry guys, but I am am no expert at the inner-workings of 'gphoto2' or 'usb' stuff. I have posted my own personal findings on the 'gphoto2' newsgroup for assistance, but so far there has been no help provided. As a side comment, I can tell you that I compiled the exact same 'gphoto2' code on a different device (NSLU2) and ran into problems there too -- so this tells me that sometimes the problem has nothing to do with 'gphoto2' itself, but the hardware and/or operating system might also be a problem.

kepler: It might be obvious, but you *have* switched your USB into 'host' mode before you are trying to use the actual USB commands, right?

PaulG: My *guess* would be that that message is merely a 'warning' message telling you that you have not yet successfully saved any particular camera configuration i.e. I think I read somewhere that 'gphoto2' will remember what camera you used -- and I suppose that it does so by recording that it a file.

darethehair
On the configuration, I have connect my camera to my linux pc and once you use auto-connect it appears to save the camera type and bus to the home/.gphoto/settings file. Since my last post, I have found that running gphoto with the --list-camera option does not list any thing.

PaulG:

The fact that your '--list-cameras' option does not show you anything tells me that something is wrong with your installation. As a guess, did you follow my instructions in:

http://members.shaw.ca/dmenns2/README.libgphoto2.dare

...particularly with steps 6A and 6B (re: ldconfig configuration?)

I think that is what tells 'gphoto2' where to find the camera definitions.

Let me know

This is exciting. Thanks, dare. I'm going to install and experiment tonight with my Nikon D80.

Since most things aren't working yet, can we keep updating the thread on the gphoto functions that people do get to work? (I'll do the same.)

bexley:

Yes, I agree with a fully-working 'gphoto2' on the N8xx platform would be very cool, but I am personally getting worried that it won't become reliable unless much smarter people that me get involved

Personally for me, the '--capture-image' is the most important function, followed by '--get-all-files'. As I posted in the thread on the 'gphoto2' newsgroup (in the thread http://www.nabble.com/Nokia-N800-to13492935.html") I *was* able to do this with some sporadic success with two Nikon Coolpix cameras -- but mostly only on the 2.4.0 version and not 2.4.0.1. The most annoying thing that can occur is a 'reboot' of the N8xx device -- to me this makes it *unreliable*, and unless smart people work to fix this, it might mean a 'dead end' for people like me i.e. my 'skills' are limited to successfully cross-compiling the code -- not 'debugging' the code

I would suggest that people interested in this project watch *this* thread, as well as participate in the 'gphoto2' newsgroup.