[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux driver for Olympus VN-240PC Digital Voice Recorder USB

[. Daniel]

I have run into that problem before with a couple of different devices.  
Both were tiny digital cameras.... one of the two are those "James Bond 
007" looks like a zippo lighter cameras.  Works under MacOS and Windows but 
Linux won't have anything to do with it.  I wonder if Wine would enable the 
device.  Not sure wine works that way though.  If I had one of those 
olympus devices available to me I'd be interested to play with it.

Oh yeah, what about vmware?  Anyone think that may help?

>Guys,
>
>I'm googled/RTFM-out....am trying to set-up so that my SuSE10.1 system can
>access the above listed device.
>
>Here's a product page (doesn't seem to be any US pages!?):
>
>http://www.olympusvoice.com.au/products/digital/notetakers/vn240pc_specifications.html

>
>found a discussion awhile back where they were trying to get it running on
>SuSE 9.3.....BUT NO CONCLUSION was reached?
>
>Any information would be helpful!! - Thanks!  Also, on a side note, I
>tried to operate through VMWare...but 'VM --> Removable Devices --> USB
>Devices' shows 'empty'.....hmmm
>
>Here's a tail of dmesg:
>
>usb 2-10: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
>usb 2-10: config index 0 descriptor too short (expected 39, got 24)
>usb 2-10: config 1 has an invalid descriptor of length 7, skipping
>remainder of the config
>usb 2-10: config 1 interface 0 altsetting 0 has 0 endpoint descriptors,
>different from the interface descriptor's value: 3
>usb 2-10: new device found, idVendor=07b4, idProduct=020d
>usb 2-10: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
>usb 2-10: Product: DIGITAL VOICE RECOR
>usb 2-10: Manufacturer: OLYMPUS OPTICAL CO.,LTD.
>usb 2-10: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
>
>and here is:
>
>linux-8eax:~ # lsusb -vv
>
>Bus 002 Device 007: ID 07b4:020d Olympus Optical Co., Ltd Digital Voice
>Recorder VN-240PC
>Device Descriptor:
>   bLength                18
>   bDescriptorType         1
>   bcdUSB               1.10
>   bDeviceClass          255 Vendor Specific Class
>   bDeviceSubClass       255 Vendor Specific Subclass
>   bDeviceProtocol       255 Vendor Specific Protocol
>   bMaxPacketSize0         8
>   idVendor           0x07b4 Olympus Optical Co., Ltd
>   idProduct          0x020d Digital Voice Recorder VN-240PC
>   bcdDevice            1.00
>   iManufacturer           1
>   iProduct                2
>   iSerial                 0
>   bNumConfigurations      1
>   Configuration Descriptor:
>     bLength                 9
>     bDescriptorType         2
>     wTotalLength           39
>     bNumInterfaces          1
>     bConfigurationValue     1
>     iConfiguration          0
>     bmAttributes         0x80
>       (Bus Powered)
>     MaxPower              100mA
>     Interface Descriptor:
>       bLength                 9
>       bDescriptorType         4
>       bInterfaceNumber        0
>       bAlternateSetting       0
>       bNumEndpoints           3
>       bInterfaceClass       255 Vendor Specific Class
>       bInterfaceSubClass    255 Vendor Specific Subclass
>       bInterfaceProtocol    255 Vendor Specific Protocol
>       iInterface              0
>       Endpoint Descriptor:
>         bLength                 7
>         bDescriptorType         5
>         bEndpointAddress     0x81  EP 1 IN
>         bmAttributes            2
>           Transfer Type            Bulk
>           Synch Type               None
>           Usage Type               Data
>         wMaxPacketSize     0x0040  1x 64 bytes
>         bInterval               0
>       Endpoint Descriptor:
>         bLength                 7
>         bDescriptorType         5
>         bEndpointAddress     0x02  EP 2 OUT
>         bmAttributes            2
>           Transfer Type            Bulk
>           Synch Type               None
>           Usage Type               Data
>         wMaxPacketSize     0x0040  1x 64 bytes
>         bInterval               0
>       Endpoint Descriptor:
>         bLength                 7
>         bDescriptorType         5
>         bEndpointAddress     0x83  EP 3 IN
>         bmAttributes            3
>           Transfer Type            Interrupt
>           Synch Type               None
>           Usage Type               Data
>         wMaxPacketSize     0x0008  1x 8 bytes
>         bInterval              50
>Device Status:     0x0000
>   (Bus Powered)
>
>
>
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