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[Tanner Lovelace <lovelace AT wayfarer.org>]

On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 15:11, Diana Duncan wrote:
> I realize this question would be best posted to TriLug, but I'm not a 
> member 
> nor do I wish to be...and I know there are lots of lovely Linux users on 
> this 
> list.
> 
> Has anyone set up a USB SmartMedia card reader/writer for Mandrake?  I'm 
> particularly interested in brands/models that you've had success or failure 
> with.  I've found a few sites with listings, but I'd also like the 
> first-hand 
> experiences of people I know and trust.

Hi Diana,

What version of Mandrake are you running?  I've set up Mandrake
to read/write a USB compact flash reader/writer before.  I don't
know if that's the same as your "USB SmartMedia", but it's the
closest I can do. :-)

Anyway, under Mandrake 8.2 I had problems because apparently
the code to do that came from a patch from Alan Cox's tree that
RedHat 7.3 applied and Mandrake 8.2 didn't.  I believe, however,
that it went into the main 2.4.19 kernel and that it should
work with Mandrake 9.0, which uses the new kernel.  

If it doesn't, try looking at the contents of the file /var/log/messages
when you plug in the smart media and see what device it
assigns it to.  My smart card reader/writer gets assigned
the device /dev/sdb (the second scsi disk, since my system
disk is the first one), so I can just mount it with this command

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/flash

(assuming, of course, the directory /mnt/flash exists).

If you have more questions, feel free to e-mail me directly.

Tanner
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