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I have a Canon Power Shot A40, a fairly old model. Our recollection is that an
old WinXP laptop, possibly lacking in the appropriate updates, is able to
download images from it in a plug-and-play fashion. It's at home. While on
vacation, I tried without success to download the images from both a Windows
Vista box (NOT mine!) and a well-updated WinXP laptop. Windows insisted on
finding a driver. We went searching for Windows software and or drivers for
the A40, but it either appeared to be scamware not from Canon or crap from
Canon that wasn't in fact a driver.
I booted a Kubuntu 8.04.1 live CD on the WinXP laptop. Kubuntu mounted the
camera automatically. Digikam autodetected the camera type and downloaded the
images-- in this case I chose USB drive.
Q: Should I have had to go to Linux? Either in terms of my skill about knowing
what Windows should do, or in what Windows "used to" be able to do?
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