[gentoo-user] Using a Digital Voice Recorder on Linux

[gentoo-user] Using a Digital Voice Recorder on Linux

[Kris Kerwin]

Hi all,

I recently purchased an Olympus VN-480PC Digital Voice Recorder to 
record my college lectures to help with note-taking. It connects to 
the PC via a USB cord.

I'm trying to figure out how to mount the DVR on my Gentoo Linux box. 
I'm using gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3, and udev-070-r1 as my dev file 
system.

Since I suspect that it probably works similarly to the ubiquitous USB 
flash drives, I tried to configure my kernel to support them. I built 
in SCSI disk support, SCSI emulation, USB support, and USB storage 
support. Still, it doesn't work.

Am I missing any drivers that are needed to support USB flash drives? 
Where might I find a USB flash drive under /dev? Is there anything 
extra that might be needed to support a digital voice recorder?

Please CC my address (kkerwin@insightbb.com) in your response. Thanks 
in advance for your help!

Kris Kerwin
kkerwin@insightbb.com
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Re: [gentoo-user] Using a Digital Voice Recorder on Linux

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 21:03:26 -0600, Kris Kerwin wrote:

> I recently purchased an Olympus VN-480PC Digital Voice Recorder to 
> record my college lectures to help with note-taking. It connects to 
> the PC via a USB cord.

Googling indicates that it won't work with Linux

http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php/product/2161/sort/1/cat/420/page/1


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Neil Bothwick

IBM: Itty Bitty Mentality

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[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Using a Digital Voice Recorder on Linux

[Kris Kerwin]

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Argh ...

That's $65 down the drain.

Usually, I don't have any problems getting devices to work on Linux. 
Perhaps I shouldn't assume that I'll get all devices to work and do 
some homework before buying a new device.

Thanks for your help, Neil.

Kris

On Monday 02 January 2006 03:27, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 21:03:26 -0600, Kris Kerwin wrote:
> > I recently purchased an Olympus VN-480PC Digital Voice Recorder
> > to record my college lectures to help with note-taking. It
> > connects to the PC via a USB cord.
>
> Googling indicates that it won't work with Linux
>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php/product/2161/sort
>/1/cat/420/page/1

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Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Using a Digital Voice Recorder on Linux

[Ted Ozolins]

Kris Kerwin wrote:

>Argh ...
>
>That's $65 down the drain.
>
>Usually, I don't have any problems getting devices to work on Linux. 
>Perhaps I shouldn't assume that I'll get all devices to work and do 
>some homework before buying a new device.
>
>Thanks for your help, Neil.
>
>Kris
>
>On Monday 02 January 2006 03:27, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>  
>
>>On Sun, 1 Jan 2006 21:03:26 -0600, Kris Kerwin wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>I recently purchased an Olympus VN-480PC Digital Voice Recorder
>>>to record my college lectures to help with note-taking. It
>>>connects to the PC via a USB cord.
>>>      
>>>
>>Googling indicates that it won't work with Linux
>>
>>http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php/product/2161/sort
>>/1/cat/420/page/
>>
>1
>  
>
It won't work with Linux for now. I have several web cams that for the
longest time were not supported under linux. I now see that the Hama
Sightcam 100 has a linux driver.  That web cam was retired to "maybe it
will work on linux in the future" bin. It now works nicely under linux.
Thanks to all the great developers out there.

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Ted Ozolins(VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C

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