[newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# df /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt df:

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# df

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or directory [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]# df

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 14:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or directory [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Monday 28 Mar 2005 14:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 15:00, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or directory [EMAIL

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
On Monday 28 Mar 2005 15:29, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Monday 28 Mar 2005 14:47, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-27 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: On Monday 28 Mar 2005 15:00, SnapafunFrank wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Hello Frank Thanks for that vote of confidence! No joy with df ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] rosemary]$ /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt bash: /home/rosemary/Desktop/df.txt: No such file or

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread James Henry Maiewski
Hello, I lost count of the number of times my blind experimentation (along with sheer stupidity (like the time I uninstalled the package installer DOH!). Do not be afraid of this. However, the best advice I ever got on this list was to mount your /home directory on a seperate

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I lost count of the number of times my blind experimentation (along with sheer stupidity (like the time I uninstalled the package installer DOH!). Do not be afraid of this. However, the best advice I ever got on this list was to mount your /home directory

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread SnapafunFrank
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I lost count of the number of times my blind experimentation (along with sheer stupidity (like the time I uninstalled the package installer DOH!). Do not be afraid of this. However, the best advice I ever got on this list was to mount your /home directory

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
James Henry Maiewski wrote: Hello, I lost count of the number of times my blind experimentation (along with sheer stupidity (like the time I uninstalled the package installer DOH!). Do not be afraid of this. However, the best advice I ever got on this list was to mount your /home directory

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
I think you will find that at present both Mikkel and I are enjoying time with our families, it being easter and all. Yes - I totally understand that. Simply posting that stuff because i have the head space to do it. We will assist you no matter what you decide but I believe you need to make

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Okay - I tried this. At the cd it said home not set so I added / after looking down at the vi instructions - hope that was right, now thinking it should have been ~! Anyway - rebooted and it stalled at ALSA again. In windows explore2fs, now see only hda2, hda3

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread SnapafunFrank
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Okay - I tried this. At the cd it said home not set so I added / after looking down at the vi instructions - hope that was right, now thinking it should have been ~! Anyway - rebooted and it stalled at ALSA again. In windows explore2fs,

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-26 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Hi Mikkel: Rosemary has sent me directly some info which I think you ought to be privy to. Her lilo.conf gives the devfs=nomount append only on the one she appears able to boot with. ( albeit that it stalls at ALSA later ) Her append lines also include resume=/mnt/hda8

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-25 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
This is strange. You are mounting hda6 on /mnt, and then the CD-ROM is mounting on /mnt/cdrom. It is not normal proactice to mount anyting on /mnt, as you normaly have mount points for removable devices in this directory. In your case, your CD-ROM is mounted there, as well as your Windows

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-25 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-24 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-24 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto

[newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-24 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Thought I'de better add this - Lilo options - linux, linux-nonf b, windows, 2681 -12, failsafe. 2681-12 is what gets me into Mandrake 10.1, or did. Rosemary Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-23 Thread SnapafunFrank
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-23 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
SnapafunFrank wrote: Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-22 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 07:26 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Card reader arrived today so thought I would try it out! Big mistake! I read instructions on a board and following that took a look using HardDrake - don't know if this is it or not.

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-22 Thread SnapafunFrank
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Dennis Myers wrote: On Monday 21 March 2005 07:26 pm, Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Card reader arrived today so thought I would try it out! Big mistake! I read instructions on a board and following that took a look using HardDrake - don't know if this is it or

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-22 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote: Frank suggested I install explore2fs and post the fstab file. Here it is /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda6 /mnt ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

[newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Card reader arrived today so thought I would try it out! Big mistake! I read instructions on a board and following that took a look using HardDrake - don't know if this is it or not. Instructions said to look at hda. It says old device file: /dev/hda and just below New devfs device:

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Philippe Landau
i am so sorry to hear about that, Rosemary ... i was so sure it would work, i never heard of anyone getting problems for pluging in a usb drive ... otherwise i would have told you to make a backup first. do you also think that maybe your version of mandrake has some underlying problems ? ALSA is

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Philippe Landau wrote: i am so sorry to hear about that, Rosemary ... i was so sure it would work, i never heard of anyone getting problems for pluging in a usb drive ... otherwise i would have told you to make a backup first. do you also think that maybe your version of mandrake has some

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Philippe Landau wrote: i am so sorry to hear about that, Rosemary ... i was so sure it would work, i never heard of anyone getting problems for pluging in a usb drive ... otherwise i would have told you to make a backup first. Hey - not your fault. do you also think that

Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
Reinstalling Mandrake should be a last resort. It isn't something you should have to resort to. Knowing what you did before you had the problem is always a good place to start... Mikkel I have also posted to a local user group, and if I cannot get it going myself have the

Linux maintenance - fresh install (Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Philippe Landau
i am so sorry to hear about that, Rosemary ... i was so sure it would work, i never heard of anyone getting problems for pluging in a usb drive ... otherwise i would have told you to make a backup first. Hey - not your fault. thanks :-) do you also think that maybe your version of mandrake has

Re: Linux maintenance - fresh install (Re: [newbie] USB card reader problem

2005-03-21 Thread Rosemary McGillicuddy
thanks :-) do you also think that maybe your version of mandrake has some underlying problems ? ALSA is the sound server, right ? For some reason it hung there too when a I attempted to install a USB mouse a few weeks ago. someone mentions the

[newbie] USB Card Reader

2005-02-18 Thread eric jackson
I just bought a USB Multi-card reader. I plugged it in, expecting Mandrake to find it but it didn't. What do I have to do to get my computer to recognize my card reader? Thanks for any help you can give. Eric Jackson Want to buy your Pack

Re: [newbie] USB Card Reader

2005-02-18 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
eric jackson wrote: I just bought a USB Multi-card reader. I plugged it in, expecting Mandrake to find it but it didn't. What do I have to do to get my computer to recognize my card reader? Thanks for any help you can give. Eric Jackson Most show up as a SCSI device for each slot. I have

[newbie] USB card-reader not working?

2004-02-28 Thread Søren Neigaard
I have a Kodak USB Picture Card Reader for CompactFlash cards.When I was running Windows, I needed a driver from Kodak as far as I remember. Heres a link to the Windows driver so you know the product: http://wwwdk.kodak.com/global/en/service/downloads/dln_ekn.jhtml?ekn=EKN020812 The thing is

Re: [newbie] USB card-reader not working?

2004-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Sren Neigaard wrote: I have a Kodak USB Picture Card Reader for CompactFlash cards.When I was running Windows, I needed a driver from Kodak as far as I remember. Heres a link to the Windows driver so you know the product:

Re: [newbie] USB card-reader not working?

2004-02-28 Thread Søren Neigaard
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 12:39, John Richard Smith wrote: Soren, Do you have media in your card reader during boot time ? Does kde-info-usb detect your hubs correctly? Looks to me that you do have a usb hub fully configured. But is there an irq conflict, IRQ routing conflict for 00:11.2, have

Re: [newbie] USB card-reader not working?

2004-02-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Sren Neigaard wrote: I now tried with a media in the reader during boot, and that worked :) But.. Can I somehow prevent mandrake from trying to mount my card on boot, so that I can only do it manually? And how do I mount/unmount it manually? Heres my fstab: none /mnt/memory_card supermount

[newbie] USB card reader

2003-09-29 Thread mooney
Are there any recommendations for linux- compatible card readers; 5- or 6- in 1 types? Looking around can find only single varieties, e.g. compact flash only Thanks Paul m Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] USB card reader

2003-09-29 Thread Walt
I use lexarmedia usb 2.0 multi card reader. I have no problems at all connecting to it. Walt -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mooney Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] USB card reader

Re: [newbie] USB card reader

2003-09-29 Thread Jason Greenwood
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mooney Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] USB card reader Are there any recommendations for linux- compatible card readers; 5- or 6- in 1 types? Looking around can find only single varieties, e.g

Re: [newbie] USB card reader

2003-09-29 Thread Michael Lothian
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of mooney Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] USB card reader Are there any recommendations for linux- compatible card readers; 5- or 6- in 1 types? Looking around can find only single varieties, e.g. compact flash only Thanks Paul m