On Saturday 27 January 2007 22:20, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 27 January 2007 21:35, Colin J Thomson - G6AVK wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have acquired a RS232 to USB adapter, which is working well with FC6 > > (tested with GPS) briefly. > > My question is I have a very old Serial port digital camera that digiKam > > refuses to work with, Its listed but I have never managed to get it to > > work. I had to resort to using the M$ software in Wine. > > > > I wonder if it would be possible to use the USB>Serial adapter somehow, > > googleing around has yet to shed any information on this. > > What model is the camera? Have you tried the linux hardware compatibility > list? > If it's pre-usb you may have some difficulty finding information. You may find something helpful here, though: http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php Then http://www.linux-usb.org/gadget/ does mention Serial ... this exposes a tty style serial line interface, usable with Minicom and similar tools. (There's no serial console support at this time.) Most Linux hosts can talk to this using the generic usb-serial driver. Don't know if any of this will help. Anne
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