On 2006-02-19 08:50:02 -0500 (Sun, Feb), Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
> Good morning everyone:

Good afternoon :-)
 
> Put flash card in reader
> Plug reader into usb port
> Wait for reader to settle
> Open root terminal
> Check dmesg for dev node for reader
> Mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash
> Do the transfer with digikam
> Back to root term
> Umount /mnt/flash
> Unplug reader
> Remove card
> Repeat
> 
> What I would like is for either the card to be automatically recognized
> and mounted, or at least to not have to do it via the root terminal

This looks like a prefect task for udev.

Have you read http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
and http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php ?

> Also, I do not have write access to the flash cards or to thumb drives
> that I may mount - even as root

Why? What error messages you receive? What did you try?

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