Tony
I've Googled the DVR model number you gave for Linux support and came to
this page, but note that it's 18 months old:
http://catontech.com/blog/2011/01/04/using-the-olympus-digital-voice-recorder-with-linux/
Note the Google link for the odvr project, but if you go there even that is
three years out of date now due to the lead developer's DVR dying a while
ago.
However. it may well be that the DVR is supported in a later Linux kernel,
the USB IDs will really help in determining that.
Peter
On 15 July 2012 22:34, Peter Andrijeczko <peter.andrijeczko@???>wrote:
> Tony
>
> The trick with USB (or indeed any device) is to work out whether there's a
> supported driver for it, either in the kernel or as a third party one.
>
> Since you've said that a USB memory stick works okay, then it's fairly
> safe to assume that the correct chipset drivers are being loaded by Ubuntu
> for your netbook - therefore it's a case of finding a driver for the
> Olympus DVR.
>
> One of the quickest ways to start finding out is to get the device USB
> vendor and device ID from the system using the "lsusb" command.
>
> Run it from the command line without the DVR plugged in, then plug in the
> DVR and run it again, noting any differences. Hopefully there's just one
> additional line that will point to the ID of the DVR.
>
> Here's a sample output of lsusb from one of my PCs, I use Gentoo Linux,
> not Ubuntu, but hopefully you should see something fairly similar:
>
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
> Bus 001 Device 005: ID 14cd:8168 Super Top
> Bus 002 Device 006: ID 041e:403a Creative Technology, Ltd Webcam NX Pro 2
> Bus 002 Device 005: ID 045e:00dd Microsoft Corp. Comfort Curve Keyboard
> 2000 V1.0
> Bus 002 Device 007: ID 045e:00d1 Microsoft Corp. Optical Mouse with Tilt
> Wheel
>
> The important numbers are the two sets of 4 hex digits after ID that are
> separated by a colon which are the vendor and device IDs. e.g. 045e:00dd
> for my Microsoft Curve Keyboard.
>
> The trick now is to just to a Google Search with "Linux kernel driver 045e
> 00dd" and just see what info you can get from there.
>
> I use Ubuntu very little so don't know what they do with the kernel but I
> suspect that most drivers in their kernel are built as modules so that the
> appropriate ones are loaded for the detected hardware - but it could well
> be that due to conflicts or support only through "Staging Drivers" that
> some modules might not be available without recompiling the kernel, or
> maybe you just need a later kernel.
>
> But once you establish whether or not the DVR is supported, then that
> should lead you on to what needs to be done next.
>
> If you do want to send me the device IDs for the DVR then I will see what
> I can find out - also let me know what kernel version you are running from
> "uname -a" on the command line.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
>
> On 14 July 2012 20:30, Tim Brocklehurst <timb@???>wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 14 Jul 2012 19:12:53 Tony Wood wrote:
>> > The only thing I can't get to work with my Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) netbook
>> > (or Ubuntu 12.04 PC) is my Olympus VN-2100PC digital voice recorder.
>> >
>> > This netbook still has a Windows 7 partition. I have to download my
>> > recorded interviews in W7, load the files onto a memory stick, then
>> > reboot into Ubuntu and transfer them.
>> >
>> > In Linux Terminal I tried: ls usb -v but the device is not even
>> found.
>> >
>> > I'd like to remove the W7 partition altogether but want to be able to
>> > use the Olympus DVR (a present from my wife.)
>> >
>> > Has anyone found a Linux way to download sound files from a VN2100PC
>> > please?
>>
>> What does dmesg give you when the device is plugged/unplugged? It's
>> unusual
>> that an audio device doesn't just appear as mass storage.
>>
>> Tim B.
>>
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