As i mentioned before i tried the cable on windoze and all worked fine
thus eliminating problems there. So for some reason it would seem that
ubuntu doesn't like that particular cable design. I'll try it on 9.04
shortly when i install it. Is it a common thing that not all cables
work? For me it means that i can put pix on my other computer if i'm
away from my main PC.

Anyone seen this type before: left is the new one and on the right is
the one that seemed to on the three cameras i've tried.

i93.photobucket.com/.../22may09-71a.jpg

Anyone use Krenamer for changing pix names to some notation that
prevents overwriting precious pix. I tried gnome's pyrenamer and
thought it was poor by comparison.