[AuckLUG] request for help: new digicam into dapper

[Wayne Rooney]

On Tuesday 24 April 2007 20:27, Guy K. Kloss wrote:

> my dad is running Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 LTS for stability and
> maintenance reasons, so we don't really want to upgrade to a more recent
> ubuntu version.
>
> But unfortunately due to his latest broken camera, he's bought himself a
> new one, a Canon PowerShot G7, which is not in the list of supported
> cameras for gphoto2 as shipped with dapper :-(
>
> I guess as it's using PTP like many others, it'll just need to be "made
> known" to the gphoto2 sub-system.
>
> The following is what I got from lsusb, so I guess the ID "04a9:3125" is
> what needs to be added with some description to some configuration file.
>
> Bus 004 Device 007: ID 04a9:3125 Canon, Inc.
>
> Any ideas besides the obvious upgrade to a more recent Ubuntu version?

If you just want to get the images off the camera, maybe USB Mass Storage 
would work?

Wayne