Canon Powershot S110 not recognized as mass storage device

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JochenF

In Linux my Canon Powershot S110 is detected as usb mass storage device, but in FreeBSD it is not.

Is there a way to get in working in FreeBSD?
Code: 
usbconfig -u 2 -a 6 dump_device_desc
ugen2.6: <Canon Digital Camera Canon Inc.> at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON (2mA)

  bLength = 0x0012 
  bDescriptorType = 0x0001 
  bcdUSB = 0x0200 
  bDeviceClass = 0x0000 
  bDeviceSubClass = 0x0000 
  bDeviceProtocol = 0x0000 
  bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040 
  idVendor = 0x04a9 
  idProduct = 0x3192 
  bcdDevice = 0x0002 
  iManufacturer = 0x0001  <Canon Inc.>
  iProduct = 0x0002  <Canon Digital Camera>
  iSerialNumber = 0x0003  <347A8D6114FA423BB65CB8E5776F15E8>
  bNumConfigurations = 0x0001
 
Check the camera menus to see if it supports USB mass storage mode. Many Canon cameras only use PTP. Programs like graphics/gphoto2 can usually talk to them. Really, though, the easier way is just to connect a card reader to the computer and read the camera card directly. That is usually faster, too.
 
As I said above the camera is mounted as mass storage in Linux. My Lenovo Ideacentre has a builtin card reader, but that is also not supported in FreeBSD. In Linux it works fine (a realteak reader). That's very sad, that FreeBSD has only limited hardware support. :-(
 
JochenF said:
As I said above the camera is mounted as mass storage in Linux.
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"USB mass storage" is a technical term. I have no doubt that a Linux desktop will show it as files, but unless that camera has a true USB storage mode, it is only being shown that way by desktop software like I suggested above, or possibly graphics/fusefs-gphotofs.

This is not a FreeBSD hardware support issue, it's a user desktop issue.
 
wblock@ said:
Really, though, the easier way is just to connect a card reader to the computer and read the camera card directly. That is usually faster, too.
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It was 2025... 10 years have passed. I agree 100% here. Just tested it. Indeed, on version 14.2-p1, the card from the Canon SX110IS camera in the card reader works much faster when copying, deleting, moving.
wblock@ said:
This is not a FreeBSD hardware support issue, it's a user desktop issue.
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I almost agree here too. After updating some system components, it became almost impossible to copy photos from the camera via USB cable. After mounting: I try to copy/move files from the camera via mc or Thunar. There is no copy speed. Even entering the memory card directory where the photos are stored takes an unrealistically long time (when entering one level of the directory, it is read in 7-10 seconds!). BUT!
Files are copied normally via the cp command.
This is the solution of 2025 with such point-and-shoot cameras as the author of the topic and me.
 
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