USB Camera (Canon PowerShot A410) woes

[Matthew87]

OK, so this to where I have gotten by just using google and playing around. I plug in my camera and turn it on. I get a new window with the options:
Open in new window
Upload photos to Digikam (twice)
do nothing

If I open it in a new window I get to the folder "system:/media/camera/" containing a folder that contains the PTP class file.
If I open in Digikam and try to access the camera, it says: "Failed to list files in media/camera"
Then I found out about gtkam and low and behold it is already on Knoppix (running v5.0.1 BTW). Too bad it's using libgphoto 2.1.6 (a later version has my camera listed)
I go to add camera (via auto detect it uses standard ptp and usb) and it gives me the error message: "Could not initialize camera".
No fun here either. Then I realise that Digikam probably uses libgphoto itself. Anyways I find this post here, but when I do "mount" to see what devicese there are the only one that look like they relate to my camera are:
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devmode=0666)
Which is already set to RW.
I figured, I'll just update libgphoto then, but failed miserably in trying since I know pretty much nothing about Linux and was happy enough to get Flash working.
Via Google I did find out that the standard PTP driver should work just fine and that the specified driver was added after that was figured out (listed as PTP mode as well).

So if anyone knows what it is that isn't working or what it is I am too stupid to get working. Please tell me. Once again I feel like a f**ktard in the Linux domain.

[sakiZ]

If you don't mind spending $20.00 buy a Sandisk 5 in 1 card reader. That is what I did when digicam couldn't find my Epson Z612 camera.

Linux will see it when you plug it in your USB port and with your place your card reader chip inserted, it acts just like a little drive, to retrieve not only photos, but to copy/move etc any type of file you want. $20.00 well spent IMHO.

It requires no new drivers beyond what is already on your system (mass storage).

sakiZ

[Matthew87]

I'd really like to avoid spending any extra dough. As nice as a card reader would be....

Poor student here. I'm too poor to buy a new PC or have this one fixed. That's why I am pretty much running from Knoppix.

[cbagger01]

I'd really like to avoid spending any extra dough. As nice as a card reader would be....

Poor student here. I'm too poor to buy a new PC or have this one fixed. That's why I am pretty much running from Knoppix.

I don't use my Canon camera as a gphoto device. I just use it as a USB mass storage device.

Plug in camera.
Open konqueror file manager.
Depending on version of Knoppix, go to
/media or /mnt
go to new usb mount point (sda1, uba1, etc).
Or click on the little pendrive desktop icon that is created.

You may need to stop gphoto or any daemons/servers that try to define the camera as a ptp device.

[Matthew87]

I'd really like to avoid spending any extra dough. As nice as a card reader would be....

Poor student here. I'm too poor to buy a new PC or have this one fixed. That's why I am pretty much running from Knoppix.

I don't use my Canon camera as a gphoto device. I just use it as a USB mass storage device.

Plug in camera.
Open konqueror file manager.
Depending on version of Knoppix, go to
/media or /mnt
go to new usb mount point (sda1, uba1, etc).
Or click on the little pendrive desktop icon that is created.

You may need to stop gphoto or any daemons/servers that try to define the camera as a ptp device.

So I killed a couple of processes, but I still can't get a desktop icon or anything in /media (Knoppix v5.0.1) and I checked /mnt but there's a file that doesn't seem to exist...
In /media I've got fd0, hd, test - all empty.

So there are probably still processes I need to kill. Any chance you know which?