First, I know Mandrake 8.1 is ancient history. My (mis-)
adventures upgrading to something newer are for another thread on
another day. (The short reason is that I cannot get software I
absolutely need to use to work under more modern Linuxes.)
The smoldering, if not actually burning, issue right now is
whether it's possible to access a USB port under Mandrake 8.1,
and how one goes about it. The ability to mount and read from
(but not write to) a flash memory stick would simplify my life
quite a bit.
There is a directory /dev/usb with permissions drwxr-xr-x owned by
root (who else?). This directory is empty. The string "usb" does
not appear anywhere in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab.
The hardware, though not new, is modern enough to have a USB port.
Thanks for any guidance.
Howard Sanner
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