I got this far: lsusb in Linux identifies it as vendor ID 04fc, device ID ffff. Vendor ID is known by gphoto2, but not the dev ID.
Back to Winders. Get the Mustek GSmart Mini2 drivers, edit the *.ini install filed to change VID and PID from 055f and 504a to 04fc and ffff. Upon connecting and pointing winders at the right directory, it loads the drivers and says everything is happy. But I still can't get it to do anything. At this point it's a firmware issue. If we can get a hold of Ritz's driver, or get figure out how to burn firmware from another similar camera, we'll be set. Big IF!
There are a BUNCH of cameras out there using the SPCA50x chips. I bet if you get Winders drivers for one of them, they will work. $11 2-megapixel digital camera and maybe web cam... w00t!
Ritz has lost their mind, and are about to learn about bad business plans the hard way, just like I-Opener, X-box, and so many others...
Just took mine apart. No pictures, but its based on the SPCA504B-P4 chip from Sunplus. This camera chip is SUPPOERTED UNDER LINUX (spca50x.sourceforge.net). Just have to figure out the interface, which likely is a USB or Serial variant, and how to turn it on. There is a 10-contact edge connector I'm tracing now.
1. Illegal traders will move to Freenet, where your identity can not be traced.
2. The RIAA will have to prove that they files offered were indeed the copyrighted item. File name alone is not sufficient.
They will have to download and verify every song they wish to sue a defendant for, and prove that it is the orginal and who they downloaded it from. That will be an expensive proposition, and soon their IP ranges will be public knowledge and
widely blocked.
My conlcusions is that this is mostly a scare tactic, with probably bad unintentional consequences for the RIAA.
Try Peanut. 50 megs ready to go with KDE. Very compact and easy to install. Will even go inside top of a Windoze partition.
- Computerareevil
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I got this far: lsusb in Linux identifies it as vendor ID 04fc, device ID ffff. Vendor ID is known by gphoto2, but not the dev ID.
Back to Winders. Get the Mustek GSmart Mini2 drivers, edit the *.ini install filed to change VID and PID from 055f and 504a to 04fc and ffff. Upon connecting and pointing winders at the right directory, it loads the drivers and says everything is happy. But I still can't get it to do anything. At this point it's a firmware issue. If we can get a hold of Ritz's driver, or get figure out how to burn firmware from another similar camera, we'll be set. Big IF!
Way to go Farris!
There are a BUNCH of cameras out there using the SPCA50x chips. I bet if you get Winders drivers for one of them, they will work. $11 2-megapixel digital camera and maybe web cam... w00t!
Ritz has lost their mind, and are about to learn about bad business plans the hard way, just like I-Opener, X-box, and so many others...
Just took mine apart. No pictures, but its based on the SPCA504B-P4 chip from Sunplus. This camera chip is SUPPOERTED UNDER LINUX (spca50x.sourceforge.net). Just have to figure out the interface, which likely is a USB or Serial variant, and how to turn it on. There is a 10-contact edge connector I'm tracing now.
I wonder if it will be my friend...
"Unsinkable"
Moral issues aside, this will have two effects:
1. Illegal traders will move to Freenet, where your identity can not be traced.
2. The RIAA will have to prove that they files offered were indeed the copyrighted item. File name alone is not sufficient.
They will have to download and verify every song they wish to sue a defendant for, and prove that it is the orginal and who they downloaded it from. That will be an expensive proposition, and soon their IP ranges will be public knowledge and widely blocked.
My conlcusions is that this is mostly a scare tactic, with probably bad unintentional consequences for the RIAA.
Try Peanut. 50 megs ready to go with KDE. Very compact and easy to install. Will even go inside top of a Windoze partition. - Computerareevil "I've always found profanity to be refuge of the inarticulate motherfucker." - Lord Byron as paraphrased by ry4an-slashdot@ry4an.org