Thanks for your swift response Jack, but rosdep install was my first attempt
to solve the problem and it didn't work :(

Anyways, sorry I took so long to get back, but I had to google for udev
rules in order to expand my knowledge and actually understand what David was
talking about! :P

David's tip did the trick, I added the rules he suggested to the mesa udev
rules file and after that the swissranger_camera node was able
to successfully connect to the camera and is now giving some cool
PointClouds in rviz!

Tanks for all the help guys,

Gonçalo Cabrita
ISR - University of Coimbra
Portugal

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:01 PM, David Dröschel
<droeschel@ais.uni-bonn.de>wrote:

> Hi Gonçalo,
>
> have you checked your permissions?
>
> We add this to our udev rules:
>
> SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{idVendor}=="1ad2",
> SYSFS{idProduct}=="0075", MODE="660", GROUP="plugdev"
>
> I think the package doesn't compile with the wrong libmesasr version.
>
>  David
>
> Gonçalo Cabrita wrote:
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I just downloaded swissranger_camera to try our SR4000 with ROS.
> >
> > I previously installed libmesasr as required. However when I try to
> > run swissranger_camera the node wont even connect to the camera:
> >
> > "blazz@blazz-ros:~$ rosrun swissranger_camera swissranger_camera
> > [ INFO] 1279202609.495838000: frame ID of camera is swissranger
> > [ INFO] 1279202609.502265000: [swissranger] , frame ID: /swissranger
> > [ INFO] 1279202609.503678000: [swissranger] , camera info URL:
> > usb_set_debug: Setting debugging level to 255 (on)
> > usb_os_find_busses: Found 005
> > usb_os_find_busses: Found 004
> > usb_os_find_busses: Found 003
> > usb_os_find_busses: Found 002
> > usb_os_find_busses: Found 001
> > usb_os_find_devices: couldn't get connect info
> > usb_os_find_devices: Found 003 on 005
> > skipped 1 class/vendor specific interface descriptors
> > usb_os_find_devices: couldn't get connect info
> > usb_os_find_devices: Found 001 on 005
> > error obtaining child information: Operation not permitted
> > error obtaining child information: Operation not permitted
> > usb_os_find_devices: couldn't get connect info
> > usb_os_find_devices: Found 002 on 004
> > skipped 1 class/vendor specific interface descriptors
> > usb_os_find_devices: couldn't get connect info
> > usb_os_find_devices: Found 001 on 004
> > error obtaining child information: Operation not permitted
> > error obtaining child information: Operation not permitted
> > usb_os_find_devices: couldn't get connect info
> > usb_os_find_devices: Found 001 on 003
> > error obtaining child information: Operation not permitted
> > usb_os_find_devices: couldn't get connect info
> > usb_os_find_devices: Found 002 on 002
> > skipped 1 class/vendor specific interface descriptors
> > skipped 1 class/vendor specific interface descriptors
> > skipped 1 class/vendor specific interface descriptors
> > usb_os_find_devices: couldn't get connect info
> > usb_os_find_devices: Found 001 on 002
> > error obtaining child information: Operation not permitted
> > error obtaining child information: Operation not permitted
> > usb_os_find_devices: couldn't get connect info
> > usb_os_find_devices: Found 011 on 001
> > usb_os_find_devices: couldn't get connect info
> > usb_os_find_devices: Found 003 on 001
> > skipping descriptor 0x24
> > skipped 1 class/vendor specific endpoint descriptors
> > skipped 4 class/vendor specific interface descriptors
> > skipping descriptor 0x25
> > skipped 1 class/vendor specific endpoint descriptors
> > skipped 5 class/vendor specific interface descriptors
> > usb_os_find_devices: couldn't get connect info
> > usb_os_find_devices: Found 001 on 001
> > error obtaining child information: Operation not permitted
> > error obtaining child information: Operation not permitted
> > error obtaining child information: Operation not permitted
> > USB error: could not set config 1: Operation not permitted
> > usb_set_debug: Setting debugging level to 0 (off)
> > [ERROR] 1279202609.670480000: Exception thrown while connecting to the
> > camera:
> > [SR::open]: Failed to open device!"
> >
> > I noticed that swissranger_camera works for libmesasr API >=1.0, and
> > at the mesa website I found the following statement:
> >
> > "The API interface has changed from driver version 1.0.8.xxx to
> 1.0.10.xxx
> > Existing applications based on the 1.0.8.xxx driver must be adapted to
> > the new interface. "
> >
> > Could it be that the version currently available at the mesa website
> > no longer works with swissranger_camera? Or am I just missing
> > something out?
> >
> > Thanks for the help,
> >
> > Gonçalo Cabrita
> > ISR - University of Coimbra
> > Portugal
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