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["Sheldon Isaac" <SheldonIsaac AT MyRealBox.com>]

On 15 Oct 2005 at 2:36, sindi keesan wrote:
> Has anyone successfully used BL2 or BL3 with SW8.1 kernel and a USB card
> reader?  If so, what is the procedure?
> 
> I have photopc and a serial cable for the Olympus digital camera, which
> worked fine for downloading 1MB of photos via serial cable for a different
> camera, but after a 5 week trip this newer camera has over 50 MB of files
> and at 10KB/sec it would take quite a while and use up a few sets of
> batteries.
> 
> We tried with Win98 and  gave up, and with WinXP but it did not come with
> the required drivers for the Smartmedia card reader.  I tried with Redhat 7
> which found the hardware but I had no idea what to do next.
> 
> Linux seems to need uhci or ohci something-or-other.


It's been a few months, but let's see what I can remember:

I'd been using Windows 98 (2nd edition), and wanted to get the pictures 
from my new camera. It worked fine with the camera's docking cradle 
(provides battery charging and a USB outlet & cable), after installing the 
drivers from the CD.

But then I mail-ordered an SD card reader with a USB connection.
Windows identified the "new hardware", but was unable to find Win98 drivers
(the reader didn't come with software, and I downloaded some which didn'tt 
work)

I used the 'live CD' of DamnSmallLinux, and it found the USB device (sd03, 
or some such??), and let me access the files on the SD card.

Don't recall any more, such as what kernel or modules or whatever.
It's been several months since I used Linux

Thanks,
Sheldon