To both you guys I highly recommend opening a console window as root, and "tail -f /var/log/messages" this will allow the kernel messages to scroll by as you work on this stuff. And you can check out the complaints, sucesses, and disasters of the various pieces of the programs running.
Another place to look into is www.linux-usb.org, it is loaded with good information on devices, their setup and problems. It really bums me out that there is seemingly no help from Mandrake with this. -- Rob Blomquist Kirkland, WA Linux: For the poeple, by the people. True democracy in computing.
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