[Novalug] How to get Linux to recognize Lexar multi-card reader

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- i know this may be a dumb question, but do you hook
it up, and *then* insert a card, and *then* do a 'df
-h' (assuming an automount daemon is running)?

- btw, it looks to me that not all readers are created
equal? 

- for example, i went to Best Buy and bought a
whiz-bang 12-in-1 Sandisk multi-card reader...
packaging said it worked w/Software From Satan™ and
Mac OS X... it didn't work with OS X and barely worked
on
That-Other-Operating-System-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named...

- took it back, got my money back, and then bought a
'GE 19-in-1 Card Reader' for less than $6 (and
one-quarter the cost of the Sandisk POS) at the local
Publix supermarket... and guess what? it works great
on *any* OS...

<sigh>

--- John Covici <covici at ccs.covici.com> wrote:

> Hi.  I am using a 2.6.19 gentoo kernel and I can't
> get the system to
> recognize my Lexar multi-card reader.  Now I have
> usb mass storage
> configured as a module and every possible support
> option answered as y
> for that module.  I am using udev and what happens
> is that it creates
> the /dev/sdc, but never the /dev/sdc1 and if I
> create it by hand it
> says no media found when I try to mount the thing. 
> I know the card
> reader is working -- it works under that other
> operating system.
> 
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
> 
> -- 
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.
>  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
> 
>          John Covici
>          covici at ccs.covici.com
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