USB Flashcard reader woes

[Jason]

I just bought a Packard Bell 6 in 1 (reads SM, CF, Memory Stick etc.) external USB flashcard reader that is supposed to work under Linux (it says that it is supported on 2.4 kernels in the manual) so I assume it just uses the mass storage standard within the USB protocol. I plugged it in (I run Mandrake) and....nothing. Now, on the same system I plugged in a Sony Memory Stick USB reader and it was automagically found and configured as a storage device that I could mount and unmount and then use. I have scoured the net and delved pretty deeply into how I might get this to work, all to no avail even though the device shows up in usbview. I even tried transitmount: http://amphi-gouri.org/transitmount/ without success.

Ideas??

Cheers

Jason