On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:45, Piers Kittel wrote: > Hello all > > I have 2 card readers - an Sandisk PCMCIA compactflash card reader, and > an Lexar USB Smartmedia card reader, and well, the question is how to > get those to work on my linux laptop?
I don't know about the PCMCIA reader. For the USB reader, if you are using module support, you need: usbcore usb-storage sd-mod scsi-mod and the usb chipset driver for your system - mine uses usb-uhci. If you modconf the usb-storage driver, you'll pull in the rest automagically. The memory devices are treated as scsi devices, and you mount them with: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /<whatever_mountpoint_you_create> My FujiFinepix camera (SmartMedia) directly mounts this way, and my 6-in-1 card reader as well. Sony Memory Sticks are formatted with a broken filesystem, so the system refuses to mount them, and Sony's Windows driver is written to ignore this (thanks for the proprietary lock-up, Sony). The memory cards I've used so far are formatted with the FAT or VFAT system. I don't know if your kernel has these options compiled in, or compiled as options, or not compiled at all. But you can find out. Cheers, Bret -- bwaldow at alum.mit.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
