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Hi there,


I have a digital camera "Canon Powershot A100" connected to my USB port.
I also have an ADSL modem connected to the other USB port.

For connection to the internet NO PROBLEM.

For connection to my Camera I get "Could not claim the USB device" as an error.

If I disconnect the adsl modem and put myself as root, than I can use the Camera and see the photo's.

I have Suse Linux 8.1 and I try to connect to the camera with konquerer (with gtKam I get the same message.

Help please

Ronald.

Well I've got the same problem with my Canon Powershot A40. And
after the first search on google I found the following link.

http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html

Try it out, I can not tell you if this would help, because I don't have my
camera at hand by the moment.

Greet
Alex

Thank you, Alex, this helped , but only partially.

Now I get the message "Could not read file Bad parameters" and then it stops

Greetings Ronald.

Hi Ronald

Well I have created the following shell script called "usbcam", I know it is a
kind of a hack but for me it works.

---CUT---
#!/bin/sh
chmod aug+rwx $DEVICE

---END CUT---

make it executable (chmod +x) and put it into "/etc/hotplug/usb"

Greet
Alex

Thank you Alex,

I will try it. In fact I just tried it but I don't really have the time right now so it didn't work immediatly. I will try it later on and then I will take the time for it.

Thanks

Ronald.