Hi,

I'm currently trying to configure my Nikon Coolpix 775 to work with
gphoto/Digikam. If the camera was the only USB device I use, there would be
no problem. But I also - sometimes - use a 128 MB USB memory stick.

Problem: according to whether I use the memory stick or not, device names
aren't the same.

1) When I don't use the camera, my devices are as follows. sg_scan -i gives
me:

/dev/sg0 DVD/RW
/dev/sg1 memory stick

And sg_map:

/dev/sg0 /dev/scd0
/dev/sg1 /dev/sda

Then, when I plug in the camera, it appears on /dev/sg2, with /dev/sdb as
device name. So I can mount it, say, with mount -t
vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/camera.

2) When I don't use the memory stick, the camera appears as /dev/sg1,
respectively /dev/sda.

Question: how do I get this fixed, in every sense? This problem prevents me
1) from making entries in /etc/fstab 2) from creating device icons on my
desktop.

Anyone has a suggestion?

Niki Kovacs
--
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one frequently goes ranting on and on at
ball-breaking length. (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,
first draft)

Kiki Novak wrote:
> Question: how do I get this fixed, in every sense? This problem prevents me
> 1) from making entries in /etc/fstab 2) from creating device icons on my
> desktop.

this is where udev comes in, especially persistent naming:

<http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php>

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On 2004-10-24, Joost Kremers <joostkremers@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Kiki Novak wrote:
>> Question: how do I get this fixed, in every sense? This problem prevents me
>> 1) from making entries in /etc/fstab 2) from creating device icons on my
>> desktop.
>
> this is where udev comes in, especially persistent naming:
>
><http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php>

Good one! Thanks!
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Email is wtallman at olypen dot com

Joost Kremers wrote:

> this is where udev comes in, especially persistent naming:
>
> <http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php>

Thanks very much for that highly informative link. This was the opportunity
for me to move on to 2.6, the operation was more or less trivial in the end
but took the best part of the afternoon nonetheless.

By the way, are there any known issues with 2.6.7? Any bad surprises?
Similar to K3B refusing to burn with 2.6.8, or the likes?

NK

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one frequently goes ranting on and on at
ball-breaking length. (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus,
first draft)

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Kiki Novak <mickey@mouse.com> trolled:

> Thanks very much for that highly informative link. This was the
> opportunity for me to move on to 2.6, the operation was more or
> less trivial in the end but took the best part of the afternoon
> nonetheless.
>
> By the way, are there any known issues with 2.6.7? Any bad
> surprises? Similar to K3B refusing to burn with 2.6.8, or the
> likes?

Why? Are you writing another article?

Moron.

cordially, as always,

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On 2004-10-24, Kiki Novak <mickey@mouse.com> wrote:
> Joost Kremers wrote:
>
>> this is where udev comes in, especially persistent naming:
>>
>> <http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php>
>
> Thanks very much for that highly informative link. This was the opportunity
> for me to move on to 2.6, the operation was more or less trivial in the end
> but took the best part of the afternoon nonetheless.
>
> By the way, are there any known issues with 2.6.7? Any bad surprises?
> Similar to K3B refusing to burn with 2.6.8, or the likes?
>
> NK

Pat included it as the option in Slackware 10.0, and that's a good sign. I
got mine from kernel.org and compiled it myself, and other than a couple of
misconfigurations (recompiled once), no discernable difficulties. Must
admit that I've not tested it extensively, but so far the only thing that
doesn't work (now that I've got /dev/sda1 again) is the sound scope in
gkrellm, and who knows what that's about... <grin>

HTH
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