You should go through the USB HOWTO and SUBMOUNT HOWTO. That is working great 
for me and all devices i connet via usb. The system will
recognize your camera as a mass storage device.

Uwe

Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I have an Argus DC1730 USB digital still camera.  I want to be able to
> use it in Gentoo.  I found a website
> (http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html) that said that the
> driver I would need is gphoto2/sq905.  I emerged gphoto2 and I think I
> have the driver now.  The website said that I would now have to mount
> the camera and gave a link to the Linux USB sub-system documentation,
> the Mass Storage Devices page.  I read over it, but it made no sense to
> me.  I've never really worked with hardware devices before. Can anyone
> walk me through mounting my camera?  The Linux USB page said that I
> should now be able to see information about my camera
> in /proc/scsi/scsi, but the file command claims that it's an empty file.
> When I cat it, I get this:
> 
> baby scsi # cat scsi
> Attached devices:
> 
> I'm not even sure if the camera driver is loaded or not.  I am using
> genkernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 if that matters...
> 
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