Re: Fwd: Coolpix 4300 Not Found on CHIP Linux

On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 12:57:15PM -0800, Allen Ginzburg wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 11:38 PM, Marcus Meissner <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 03:15:36PM -0800, Allen Ginzburg wrote:
> > > I want to control the Coolpix 4300 from this $9 single board computer.
> > The
> > > camera shows up as:
> > >
> > > Bus 001 Device 023: ID 04b0:010e Nikon Corp. Coolpix 4300 (storage)
> > >
> > > But is not found by gphoto2 (version 2.5.4).  The listing of supported
> > > cameras shows this camera supported in sierra mode, but the only USB
> > modes
> > > that the camera configuration allows is storage and ptp.
> > >
> > > I cannot unload the mass-storage driver on this computer.  Is there any
> > way
> > > to get gphoto2 to control this camera on this system?
> >
> > Sierra mode on the Coolpix 4300 is "tunneled" through the Mass Storage
> > mode.
> >
> > So switch the camera to mass storage mode.
> >
> > WHat does "gphoto2 --auto-detect" show? WHat does "gphoto2 --list-ports"
> > show?
> >
> > The USB or SCSI generic device might still need write permissions of your
> > user,
> > or you can run as root if this is a small computer.
> >
> > Ciao, Marcus
> >
> 
> I am running as super-user and auto-detect doesn't find anything.  Here is
> the output:
> 
>  root@chip:~# lsusb | grep Nikon
> Bus 001 Device 025: ID 04b0:010e Nikon Corp. Coolpix 4300 (storage)
> root@chip:~# gphoto2 --auto-detect
> Model                          Port

And
	gphoto2 --list-ports
?

Can you also run:
	modprobe sg


and see if that changes gphoto2 --auto-detect   output?

It should provide "usbscsi:" ports.

Cioao, Marcus

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