Difference between pages "USB to serial adapter" and "Build and install gphoto2"

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[[USB]] to serial adaptors allow you to use [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS232 RS232] based hardware via a computer's USB port.
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gphoto2 is a utility to download pictures from a [[digital camera]].
  
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I bought SiteCom's USB to serial cable and it works perfectly with Linux:
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To [[build]] and [[install]] it, [[find out your distribution]] and proceed accordingly
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* [[open a console]]
 
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* attach the adaptor
 
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* read the syslog using the command
 
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dmesg
 
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* in the syslog you will find some lines reading like
 
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[51904.256210] usb 2-1.6: new full speed USB device number 8 using ehci_hcd
 
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[51904.341896] usb 2-1.6: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2303
 
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[51904.341904] usb 2-1.6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
 
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[51904.341909] usb 2-1.6: Product: USB-Serial Controller D
 
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[51904.341912] usb 2-1.6: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
 
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[51904.342508] hdj_probe() unsupported device, idVendor67b, idProduct:2303
 
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[51904.342540] pl2303 2-1.6:1.0: pl2303 converter detected
 
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[51904.344545] usb 2-1.6: pl2303 converter now attached to ttyUSB0
 
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</pre>
 
  
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= Testing with another computer =
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= SUSE Linux 12.1 =
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To test with another computer I connect the USB to serial adapter to my USB port, the other end I connect via a female-female cable to an older computer's com2 port. Then I issue on my computer
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* [[open a console]] as root and [[install]] some [[dependencies]]:
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dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/ttyUSB0
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[[yast]] -i libgphoto2-devel
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on the other computer I use
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* download the source code from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gphoto/files/gphoto/
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dd if=/dev/ttyS1
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* [[extract]] it, in this example version 2.4.14:
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And I can see how garbage is transmitted.
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cd
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[[tar]] xvzf Downloads/gphoto2-2.4.14.tar.gz
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= See also =
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cd gphoto2-2.4.14/
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* [[hardwAre]]
 

Revision as of 18:44, 11 August 2012

gphoto2 is a utility to download pictures from a digital camera.

To build and install it, find out your distribution and proceed accordingly

SUSE Linux 12.1

yast -i libgphoto2-devel

cd
tar xvzf Downloads/gphoto2-2.4.14.tar.gz
cd gphoto2-2.4.14/
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