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Download digital camera photos with gphoto2

Ryan — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:14:44 +0000

gphoto2 allows you to directly connect a digital camera over USB and transfer the saved images and videos to your computer. This is very helpful when you don’t have access to a media card reader.

Install the gphoto2 package on your system.

In Gentoo:

# emerge media-gfx/gphoto2

In Ubuntu:

# aptitude install gphoto2

Start off by connecting your digital camera to your computer with a USB cable and turning on any transfer/playback mode that might exist.

Run the following command to see if your camera is auto-detected by gphoto2. It will show you the camera model that detected and what port it is on.

$ gphoto2 --auto-detect

This will show you all the files that are currently stored on your camera including images and videos. You will get data such as type, size, and location on the camera device.

$ gphoto2 --list-files

Change your current working directory to the location that you want the images saved on your system.

$ cd ~/camera_images/

Now you can download all the images and videos from your camera to your current working directory on your system.

$ gphoto2 --get-all-files

Once all images are downloaded to your computer you can clear the camera. Make sure your images are stored on your system correctly because there is no going back.

$ gphoto2 --delete-all-files

Find your MAC address with ifconfig

Ryan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:06:53 +0000

You can find the MAC address of your system at the command line by using the ifconfig command. The ifconfig command will show you information on all your network interfaces. If no arguments are given ifconfig displays the status of the currently active interfaces.

You have to run this command as root or use sudo.

# ifconfig

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr a1:b2:c3:d4:e5:f6  
          inet addr:192.168.2.11  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
          RX packets:4007 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4246 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3292271 (3.1 MiB)  TX bytes:994922 (971.6 KiB)

Your MAC address is displayed in the HWaddr field.

Find your IP address with ifconfig

Ryan — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:48:07 +0000

You can find the IP address of your system at the command line by using the ifconfig command. The ifconfig command will show you information on all your network interfaces. If no arguments are given ifconfig displays the status of the currently active interfaces.

You have to run this command as root or use sudo.

# ifconfig

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr a1:b2:c3:d4:e5:f6
          inet addr:192.168.2.11  Bcast:192.168.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1492  Metric:1
          RX packets:4007 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4246 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3292271 (3.1 MiB)  TX bytes:994922 (971.6 KiB)

Your IP address is displayed in the inet addr field.