[Eug-lug] Can't get Mepis 6.5 to talk to an HP Photosmart m305 camera

[Allen Brown]

I second the card reader suggestion.  I don't even use my camera's
USB.

I see the HP Photosmart m305 uses MMC or SD.  I heard Linux now
supports SD, but I haven't tried it.  MMC is no problem.  If you
have trouble with SD, switch to MMC.

But be sure the MMC reader you buy is supported.  A lot of card
readers don't work under Linux.  A good way to go is to buy it
from a vendor that supports Linux or says the reader works with
Linux.
-- 
Allen Brown  abrown at peak.org  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
   There are four kinds of homicide: Felonious, excusable, justifiable,
   and praiseworthy. --- Ambrose Bierce

marbux wrote:
> I'm down with a bad cold, full of aspirin, liquids, and over-the-counter 
> cold symptom relievers that have left me brainless. My plan for coping 
> called for lots of naps with all hope of getting any work done abandoned 
> during my waking hours, which would be spent playing Shishen-Sho on my 
> computer. But Household Management has shot down that plan, informing me 
> that if I'm well enough to play Shishen-Sho, I'm well enough to get the 
> computer to talk to her HP Photosmart m305 camera so she can unload the 
> camera onto my hard drive. My pleas that I couldn't do that without a 
> functioning brain, but was overruled. So I need some assistance so I can 
> get back to my plan for surviving the cold.
> 
> I've got fully patched Mepis 6.5 SMP (derived from Kubuntu Dapper) 
> running, sort of, on a new Intel D946GZIS motherboard and a dual core 
> processor. My boot log is full of error messages, principally having to 
> do with a need to persuade Intel to do a better job with its BIOS and 
> the 915 screen resolution driver being non-functional.
> 
> But the immediate problem is that the system does not autodetect the 
> camera, the manual install includes no driver for the particular camera, 
> and I can't find one for it. That wasn't a problem with Mepis when I was 
> still running an i586 processor.
> 
> The upshot is that I would really appreciate a suggestion for where to 
> start working around this problem. If I can get this camera thing 
> solved, then I can return to my recovery plan and deal with the other 
> problems later.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Marbux