Olympus 8080 Camera

[Mark Roach]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 08:24:41PM +0100, Abreu Pires wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I can't connect and import images from my Olympus.
> I've already searched on Google but I didn't find what I need.
> Can you help?

I have this same camera. All I have to do to get it to work is turn the
camera on, set it to "play" mode, and plug it in (USB). Then a dialog window
comes up asking if I want to import photos. 

This is a usb-storage device, so if you want to make it work manually,
you can run

$ sudo su -
# modprobe usb-storage
# dmesg | tail -50
 <lots of output here that should indicate whether any devices were
 found>

this should give you a new /dev/sdX device, on my system, it is
/dev/sda. You should then be able to e.g. 'fdisk /dev/sda' and see the
partition, or 'mount /dev/sda1 /mnt' to get access to the photos. 

One issue that I have been having (it doesn't seem to be linux-specific
though) is that my CF card reader is USB2, and my laptop only has USB1,
which is supposed to work, but gives me a very long delay in detecting
the device.

If the manual steps don't work, please reply with the output from dmesg,
they might be useful for debugging.

-Mark