Hi, I have 2 usb ports. The Intelleye mouse is working well off one port. I am trying to get a Smartmedia card reader to work off the other port.
I have made some steps in what I think is the right direction /etc/modules has: scsi_hostadapter usb-storage I have a program called usbview which shows me that the reader can be hotplugged, which means usbutils and hotplug are working (I think) I have made a /mnt/smedia directory I know I will need to add something to my fstab such as: /dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia vfat noauto,user but have not done that yet... perhaps i should do that now? I have held off because mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia tells me there is no sda1 ( ls -al in dev/ reveals that there is no device sd* at all - see clip below.) How does the dev directory get the device names? Should they just appear? Does usb-storage do that? Any comments or clues would be appreciated. I am new to Linux so may well be missing something very basic. Some details below Walter ~~~ = My Machine = Dell i8100 laptop ATI Radeon 7500 Mobility Mandrake 8.1 Linux 2.4.9-13smp i686 [ELF] Upgraded to Xfree86 4.2.0 ~~~ 1000 root@psybernet:/home/walter (08:58:12) # lsmod Module Size Used by sg 28624 0 (autoclean) sr_mod 14912 0 (autoclean) lt_serial 20336 0 (unused) lt_modem 314720 0 [lt_serial] maestro3 25280 2 soundcore 4208 2 [maestro3] ac97_codec 9312 0 [maestro3] lp 5808 0 parport_pc 20240 1 parport 24768 1 [lp parport_pc] irtty 6000 2 (autoclean) irda 93568 1 (autoclean) [irtty] ds 6992 2 i82365 23728 2 pcmcia_core 43936 0 [ds i82365] ip_vs 62000 0 (autoclean) keybdev 1920 0 (unused) mousedev 4192 1 hid 18480 0 (unused) usbmouse 2048 0 (unused) input 3648 0 [keybdev mousedev hid usbmouse] iptable_nat 16560 0 (autoclean) (unused) ip_conntrack 15600 1 (autoclean) [iptable_nat] iptable_mangle 2048 0 (autoclean) (unused) iptable_filter 2048 0 (autoclean) (unused) ip_tables 11488 5 [iptable_nat iptable_mangle iptable_filter] usb-uhci 21232 0 (unused) eepro100 17120 0 (autoclean) (unused) nls_iso8859-1 2880 1 (autoclean) ntfs 49776 1 (autoclean) usb-storage 52528 0 (unused) usbcore 50752 1 [hid usbmouse usb-uhci usb-storage] ide-scsi 8096 0 scsi_mod 91072 3 [sg sr_mod usb-storage ide-scsi] rtc 5600 0 (autoclean) ext3 63084 2 jbd 39168 2 [ext3] ~~~ 1005 root@psybernet:/dev (08:59:47) # ls -al | grep sd crw------- 1 root root 8, 0 Jan 1 1970 .devfsd lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 7 Apr 18 08:49 ptysd -> pty/m61 crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 3, 61 Jan 25 14:56 ttysd -- Walter Logeman Psychotherapist http://www.psybernet.co.nz
