Tony
Incidentally, the reason why USB device IDs are far more important than the
make and model number is because one Linux kernel driver could support a
number of devices with different USB IDs - that's why searching on the USB
ID is usually the best and quickest way to find out the supported status.
Peter
On 15 July 2012 22:41, Peter Andrijeczko <peter.andrijeczko@???>wrote:
> 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 is three years out of date now due to the lead developer's DVR dying a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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