On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 08:38:14PM -0500, Howard Sanner wrote: > 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 cannonical place to start is : http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/book1.html I don't know what kernel version comes with Mandrake 8.1, but if it is older then 2.2.27 (according to the howto) you are sol :-( Good luck, - Rob .
