Hello: Today I received a Lexar USB2.0 Card Reader. I tried connecting it to an FC1 box (kernel 2.4.2.2129.nptl) with an AMD Duron processor (1.4 GHz). Immediately upon connecting, the system queries the floppy and two existing SCSI devices (an Iomega Jaz drive and a CD burner). Then, inexplicably, the machine hangs and I have to do an uncontrolled (and, needless to say, unclean) shutdown. However, my HP Digital PhotoSmart 120 camera connects without a hitch and, using gtkam, I can save and delete photographs with the camera connected. I tried looking up some instructions for kernel modification, and I know I have a good tool for it (menuconfig) and also the kernel source code. How can I get the reader to connect and mount up without bringing the whole system to a crashing halt? Does FC1 have a special vulnerability that FC2 does not have? I'd really like to know how to fix this, because I'd like to recommend a digital-photography solution to a client of mine. Of course he could probably use gtkam to save his photos straight from the camera, but if he could simply shove the card into a reader and use Nautilus (or even the bash cp command) to pull off his photos to a directory of his own choosing, that would be a lot more convenient for his operations, as I'm sure everybody can appreciate. (He runs a pathology laboratory and would like to take gross photographs and photomicrographs for inclusion in his reports--and he could do that a lot faster if all he had to do was pop out a card and stick it into a reader while he shoves another, blank card into the camera so that he can keep going. And when he's dealing with frozen-section diagnosis, speed is of the essence!) Temlakos
