[rjl]

I'm running Mandrake 9.1 (kernel 2.4.21-mdk13) and have recently bought a 'toy' digital camera. The packaging calls it an 'iConcepts Web Cam 2 Go Kit' but I think its either an SQ702 USB (this main be an Asian name) or an iConcepts 69052.

I plugged it in a GTKam popped up but couldn't find a driver for it. I looked on the Internet but couldn't find a driver there either.

But I did find some related posts which said about mounting the device /dev/sda to somewhere appropriate.

I looked in /dev but there wasn't anything there. The only things in /dev/scsi were the cdrom and cdwriter.

I checked my kernel setup and things like USB mass storage are there.

Any Ideas?

Cheers.

[blueworm]

try mounting it
first

Code:

mkdir /mnt/camera

then

Code:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera

[rjl]

I don't seem to have a device called /dev/sda1 or anything similar.

But I think I've got all the right modules in my kernel.

[blueworm]

Quote:

I don't seem to have a device called /dev/sda1 or anything similar.

But I think I've got all the right modules in my kernel.

Is that the error you are getting when you try to mount or have you simply looked in your /dev/ directory.

[rjl]

Yes, if I issue:

Code:

# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/other

it says:

Code:

mount: special device /dav/sda1 does not exist

and I've looked in /dev and its definately not there.

Actually, I haven't got an entry in fstab for it. Should there be?

[blueworm]

No there is no need to have a line in /etc/fstab unless you want it to mount at boot.
try

Code:

modprobe usb-storage

to see what modules you have loaded

Code:

lsmod

once you plug in and switch on your camera devfs will automatically create /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 and if you where to plug in a second camera or thumb drive it would create /dev/sdb and /dev/sdb1....
If modprobing usb-storage worked for you all you need to do so that it loads this module at boot is add it to your /etc/modules file...

Code:

echo usb-storage >> /etc/modules