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support olympus vn-4100pc for Ubuntu 7.10

Asked by vcooke

When I plug my Voice recorder into the USB port I get nothing at all. I have looked around for a driver or at least some support but all I find is negative info. I would like to know if anyone or group is working on some type of support for Olympus recorders. I found a lot of question for the same, so I think it would be a good project to be taken up by someone

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Pedro Fragoso (ember) said : 		#1

That voice recorder doesn't even appears in the /dev/. The digital one's write the voice clip into files that you can access throught an USB just like a pen.
So making drivers for this kinda of hardware is really obsolete in my opinion.

Best luck,
Pedro Fragoso

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lyontamer (lyontamer) said : 		#2

I don't believe it is that obsolete if so many people own Olympus recorders. ;)

I have the same recorder and while it shows on the recorder that there's a connection to the PC, on the PC there is no file or removable drive which appears for the recorder when I plug it in. The recorder came with a driver installation disk, but they are all EXE files and Ubuntu won't read them.

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lyontamer (lyontamer) said : 		#3

The recorder plugs in through USB.

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lyontamer (lyontamer) said : 		#4

I did not realize I had clicked the wrong thing at the bottom. This problem is not answered. :)

I have tried another DVR and it also will not work. I've tried the ODVR and ran into the above problem, I tried installing it in both Wine and Crossover. The program starts up but it still does not recognize the DVR when I plug it in. The new DVR is an RCA RP5120-A and Ubuntu does read it, but does not open voc files.

What do I do? I need to get one of these working.

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Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab) said : 		#5

I haven't tried this yet but this seems to be software to handle this device:
http://code.google.com/p/odvr/

See this post for more information:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6524614&postcount=7

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Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab) said : 		#6

I've since tested the project I mentioned in my previous post. It works, although this device won't mount as USB storage.

I'll file a "needs-packaging" bug report.

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