On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 14:28 -0700, Kevin Kempter wrote: > Hi LIst; > > I just bought a new Nikon D300 digital SLR - it uses a 4G compact flash card. > I'm running Fedora 7 & KDE. When I plug it it I get the dialog asking me what > to do, I select 'open in new window' and a new konqueror window opens pointed > to 'system:/media/camera' but no files show up. Then I get a opo-up dialog > that says : > > "Could not read file Could not claim the USB device" > > > dmesg shows this: > bridge-wlan0: enabling the bridge > bridge-wlan0: up > sky2 eth0: enabling interface > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready > bridge-eth0: enabling the bridge > bridge-eth0: up > [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 > [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20060119 on minor 0 > wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 > wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:14:6c:1a:97:32 > wlan0: RX authentication from 00:14:6c:1a:97:32 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0) > wlan0: authenticated > wlan0: associate with AP 00:14:6c:1a:97:32 > wlan0: authentication frame received from 00:14:6c:1a:97:32, but not in > authenticate state - ignored > wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:14:6c:1a:97:32 (capab=0x421 status=0 aid=1) > wlan0: associated > wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:14:6c:1a:97:32) > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready > wlan0: no IPv6 routers present > usb 5-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6 > usb 5-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice > VMBlock warning: DentryOpRevalidate: invalid args from kernel > VMBlock warning: DentryOpRevalidate: invalid args from kernel > VMBlock warning: DentryOpRevalidate: invalid args from kernel > VMBlock warning: DentryOpRevalidate: invalid args from kernel > > > > I'm not sure how to go about debugging this or even what device name I would > use to try a manual mount command. Any thoughts? > > Also, would a compact flash reader be a better solution with Linux - my old > camera used SD cards and in general SD readers worked fine with my Linux > machines. > > > Thanks in advance ... > Hi Kevin, See this posting. I think you are seeing the problem that the device is not writeable by non-root users. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-December/msg01421.html Nataraj