Driver needed for my old Canon camera- SOLVED

Linux Support
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Hi guys I have an early model digital Canon camera my friend gave me. it has one of those early big memory cards in it ( do it won’t fit in a card reader or my Chromebook’s slot) and to load the photos onto a laptop/netbook it has a USB cable. I connected it to my Mint netbook but it wasn’t recognised- nothing happened. I would need a driver wouldn’t I?

Would it be possible that Linux would have one for it? It did for the old xp scanner my friend gave me the other year which Mark kindly found the driver for.

The make of the Canon camera is Powershot A10.

I found it online, but it says there are no driver for it… :frowning:

Which is a shame as it takes ace photos and is easy to use. My friend gave me a newer Fuji camera last week ( so I can use the slot on my Chromebook) but although the Canon is heavier on batteries I find it easier to use. I will have to spend ages reading the Fuji manual.

I suppose if it has no drivers I will have to give it to my Mum who has Windows.

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You could get a CF to USB card reader for very little or you could go the other way and get a SD Card to CompactFlash Card Adaptor so that you can use a (cheaper) standard SD card in the camera. This would allow you to plug it into your Chromebook.

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Can you plug the camera into the netbook, then post the output from

dmesg | tail -n 40

and

lsusb
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Thank you Mark1

Here you go:

karij@karij-Inspiron-1011 ~ $ dmesg | tail -n 40
[ 24.328277] cfg80211: Disabling freq 5980 MHz
[ 24.328283] cfg80211: Disabling freq 6000 MHz
[ 24.328289] cfg80211: Disabling freq 6020 MHz
[ 24.328296] cfg80211: Disabling freq 6040 MHz
[ 24.328302] cfg80211: Disabling freq 6060 MHz
[ 24.328308] cfg80211: Disabling freq 6080 MHz
[ 24.328328] cfg80211: Regulatory domain changed to country: GB
[ 24.328335] cfg80211: (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[ 24.328345] cfg80211: (2402000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
[ 24.328354] cfg80211: (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
[ 24.328362] cfg80211: (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
[ 24.328371] cfg80211: (5490000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2700 mBm)
[ 29.628890] init: plymouth-stop pre-start process (1626) terminated with status 1
[ 34.680087] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 98.856296] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 2
[ 156.956099] usb 1-4: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd
[ 158.602693] scsi3 : usb-storage 1-4:1.0
[ 159.602004] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access Freecom DataBar USB2.0 1100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[ 159.605537] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 159.611208] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 1957888 512-byte logical blocks: (1.00 GB/956 MiB)
[ 159.612665] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 159.612690] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 159.613856] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 159.613882] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 159.623183] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 159.623202] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 159.625249] sdb: sdb1
[ 159.628611] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 159.628630] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 159.628646] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 171.064161] usb 2-1: new low-speed USB device number 3 using uhci_hcd
[ 171.310829] input: PixArt USB Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input10
[ 171.311861] generic-usb 0003:093A:2510.0002: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [PixArt USB Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0
[ 223.512409] WARNING! power/level is deprecated; use power/control instead
[ 223.592178] usb 1-4: USB disconnect, device number 6
[ 232.528282] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 3
[ 474.204279] usb 2-1: new low-speed USB device number 4 using uhci_hcd
[ 474.395500] input: PixArt USB Optical Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/input/input11
[ 474.396147] generic-usb 0003:093A:2510.0003: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [PixArt USB Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.0-1/input0
[ 924.464191] usb 5-2: USB disconnect, device number 2
karij@karij-Inspiron-1011 ~ $ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 064e:a129 Suyin Corp.
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 093a:2510 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Optical Mouse
karij@karij-Inspiron-1011 ~ $

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Thank you SeZo! The CF to USB thing looks a good option if Mark can’t find a driver. My mother has an iphone, so probably wouldn’t use the Canon camera and I don’t feel like giving it away, although the Fuji’s card can be slotted right into the Chromebook and its batteries last longer, I just find the Canon so much easier to use and it takes better photos!

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Was that output with the camera plugged in, and switched on ?

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Drop down View all operating systems and look for Linux 32 bit and 64 bit.

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According to the canon driver site they never released drivers for Linux

So it looks like a card reader is probably your only option.

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Yes, well a CF to USB thing it’ll have to be. Thanks guys.

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I think I will have to get one of those cards for the Canon- it takes such crisp photos but the Fuji one although it’s a newer one is often blurred- it’s hard to get it to take crisp images!

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Yep, that should do the trick :slight_smile:

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I use the take pics in 10 secs function on the Fuji which makes a little difference, but it is no way as good as the Kodak I used to have and even my previous mobile phone I had ( which i wish hadn’t died now) had abetter camera ( my new mobile has one of those sims that are very difficult to take out and put back in, and with no usb on it I don’t bother trying to load its photos on to my chromebook or netbook).