I tried the below procedure. At first it said something about not having something-or-other in place--I can't recall what, because when everything froze, I lost it all. I recall that it recognized the reader as a Lexar, but then kept saying that USB drivers were timing out. And then suddenly it poured out a lot of gibberish, ending in a string of hex codes that I can't possibly recall--ending with the phrase "Kernel panic" and a notice about "killing the interrupt handler." After that, my Caps Lock and Num Lock LED's started to flash, and the system would not respond to anything except a cold-turkey shutdown. Just tho show you how new I am at this game--and that some might say that Fedora Core was a poor choice for a total newcomer to Linux--I did not appreciate what a "kernel panic" was until you told me to proceed as I just did, and I read the above messages (as nearly as I can recall them). All right--so the kernel flies into a panic and shuts down its interrupt handler every time I connect the card reader. I assume that the other machine does the same thing. So how do I get the kernel *not* to panic? Temlakos On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 08:35, James Wilkinson wrote: > What happens if you press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a text terminal, then > connect the card reader? > > It throughly sounds as though you've got a kernel panic. > > James.
