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I am also trying to get my Fuji Finepix 1300 working with DSL 30. Both USBview and lsusb find the thing, but I cannot get it to create a mount point. Ths is not unique to DSL, as I need to manually make an entry in the fstab for it as well as a mount point. It is recognized as a usb 1.0 mass stroage device at /dev/sda1 and mounted as mnt/flash.

Wouldn't dsl on start do that for you, the mountpoint should be /mnt/sda1

If not, It'll be probably easier to just use the mount command manually than specifying using a persistent fstab (or just add a line to it), since you'll still have hardware detection for your other drives. (if you don't agree, you can boot with nofstab).

I tried to install the Fuji camera on another machine with a Debian Sarge install, and had nearly the same results. However, this time, the thing did mount, as again shown by USBview. By accident, I mounted one of the flash drives, and there it was! This encouraged me enough to try this on DSL 3.0 again. Still no joy. I then added a mount point to the bootlocal.sh script, and tried again. The camera mounted to this mount point (sda1)!

The key points to remember are:
1. have a mount point defined, and
2. have the camera in transmit mode and fired up before the USB scan during OS boot time.

This seems to work no matter the distro (Linux).

Mitch :-)

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I tried to install the Fuji camera on another machine with a Debian Sarge install, and had nearly the same results. However, this time, the thing did mount, as again shown by USBview.

That's not USBview's function. USBview shows you everything plugged in and detectable in your USB ports irrespective of whether it's mounted. As long as the vendor and item info is identifiable, something will show up in USBview without it being mounted.

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By accident, I mounted one of the flash drives, and there it was! This encouraged me enough to try this on DSL 3.0 again. Still no joy. I then added a mount point to the bootlocal.sh script, and tried again. The camera mounted to this mount point (sda1)!

Actually, hotplug should (and does) set mount points for USB devices when they're plugged in; /mnt/sda1 is the first default (followed by /mnt/sdb1, etc.). Accordingly, you could run into some problems if you intend to simply set mount points like /mnt/camera and /mnt/thumbdrive and /mnt/mp3player because hotplug sets mount points sequentially according to the order you plug in any kind of USB media -- so if you inserted your thumbdrive or any other USB media like an mp3player before your camera, the thumbdrive or other device would mount at /mnt/camera if /mnt/camera was set to /dev/sda, etc. You'll have to edit usb.usermap to get around that. You can find guides through Google. Here's one that discusses the issue for kernel 2.4 (2.6 is easier to "fix" in this regard).

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The key points to remember are:
1. have a mount point defined, and
2. have the camera in transmit mode and fired up before the USB scan during OS boot time.

Hotplug should set a mount point for you even if you don't pre-set one. Like I wrote above, you'll have to make your mount points specific via an edited usb.usermap if you intend to use various USB devices unless you plug them in in a specific sequence according to your pre-set mount points. If the cam is the only one you'll use, /mnt/sda1 will suffice (but hotplug should already do that for you).

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