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Neil Winchurst wrote: > I blamed Mandriva. > > A while ago I bought a digital camera (Canon Powershot A610). Once I > had some photos ready I decided to transfer them to the computer. So, > while Mandriva was running, I linked that camera to a USB port using the > supplied cable and powered up the camera in view mode. > > CRASH. I'd say get an external card reader. Admittedly that won't help if the camera has onboard memory (does it?). I have a Sitecom reader and a brief glance at their website when I had a 2.4.* kernel gave me an A4 page of how to install it under Linux - very impressive and it worked first time! After that I would recommend Sitecom to any Linux users as a Linux friendly manufacturer. Under 2.6 I had no problem, it just sees the reader as 4 USB drives. The other advantage of course is that you don't wallop the camera batteries transferring data, and with an external reader you can attach it to any PC/Mac you like, so you can download pictures on holiday or otherwise away from home without worry about installing camera software, or flattening the camera batteries. From what a couple of replies have said it looks as though Canon do things in a proprietary way - never much fun in Linux. The card reader would kill that problem also :) Kind regards, Julian -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html