Canon Powershot A510 isn't recognized

Can you please post the output of the 'lsusb' and 'df -h' commands issued from terminal when the cam is plugged
in?
Thanks,
David P.

Here's what I get when I type 'lsusb' in Konsole.

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04a9:30c2 Canon, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

When I type in 'df -h' in Konsole I get the following:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 18G 3.1G 14G 18% /
varrun 125M 100K 125M 1% /var/run
varlock 125M 0 125M 0% /var/lock
procbususb 125M 96K 125M 1% /proc/bus/usb
udev 125M 96K 125M 1% /dev
devshm 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm
lrm 125M 33M 92M 27% /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/volatile

That's right, I've got the camera switched to the view mode when hooking it up to the laptop. As soon as I plug in the camera digiKam starts up but then I get a connection failed pop-up and when I retry it's the same thing.

Thanks David Portwood, that solved my question.

i had this same issue, i was turning the camera on, switched to view mode, then plugged in. pc recognized it was there, but digikam would give me this error. however, if i plugged in the camera first, then powered it on, digikam would pick it right up. i can't remember if i already had digikam launched when i powered it on, but it would not work for me if the camera was already powered on before i plugged it in.

Thank you Dewain Riddle, digiKam is currently downloading pictures as I type. The trick I guess was to start the the camera after connecting. But, now all the pictures from this Christmas are on the machine, and I'm another step closer to not needing this hard drive partitioned and split between Ubuntu and windows.

Again thanks.

Your welcome, Glad i could help you! :)