On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 14:54, bascule wrote:
> if you already have usb up and running then i suspect that will need to use
> the usb-storage module, this should allow your card reader to show up as a
> hard disk, usually an emulated scsi disk, then you can mount the card reader
> just as you mount a hard disk and treat it as such, there have been issues
> with card readers that support more than one kind of memory card though with
> not all of them being accessible
>
> if you don't have usb up and running then then you will need to make sure it
> is enabled in your bios, then you will need to use the correct module, for
> usb1.1 this will be either 'uhci', 'usb-uhci' or 'usb-ohci', for usb 2.0 it
> will be 'ehci-hcd'
>
> of course it may be that harddrake will detect your reader and configure it
> for you, if not then try modprobing the above modules and see what works,
> if this helps then you will need to add the names of the modules to your
> /etc/modules file, - warning - some people have found that with some kernels
> the autoloading of usb modules at boot up can hang their system, this appears
> to depend on the usb hardware, the motherboard and the kernel revision, make
> sure you have a rescue floppy or a mandrake install cd so that if this does
> happen you can copy your backup of /etc/modules back! :)
>
> bascule
>
> On Friday 30 Jan 2004 6:57 pm, Maurice O'Connor wrote:
> > I have an older digital camera (Olympus c2000Z). I can connect to it
> > through gphoto, but it is a serial connection and very slow. Recently I
> > was given a card reader for a USB connection. It would be great if I
> > knew how to use it. What should I do to have the system see the card
> > and is there any software necessary for workable system.
> > I have an HP D200 I bought with linux. It has 4 USB ports.
> > TIA
Thanks to Bascule and Marc I am up and running.
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