On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:19:04AM -0500, Clint Harshaw wrote: > Sheo S Prasad wrote: > >I will greatly appreciate help in the matter of how to make a USB flash > >crad reader (n-in-one variety) work in Fedora-2, specifically when the > >card reader/witer is connected throgh a USB hub. > > > >Thanking you in advance for your help. > > > > Sheo: > > Here's how I did it on my FC2 box -- now keep in mind that I'm > connecting to one of the USB ports on the box itself, not an external hub. > > > 1. as root, mkdir /mnt/flash > > 2. add this line to /etc/fstab: > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash vfat noauto,user 0 0 > > 3. rebooted (not sure if this reboot is necessary or not, though) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ step 3 not needed <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > 4. plug in compact flash card reader > > 5. open a terminal, and type this: > mount /mnt/flash > > 6. Then I can cd /mnt/flash and view the contents of my card! Don't > forget to umount /mnt/flash prior to disconnecting the reader. > > If you get some sort of error, try running modprobe usb-storage. > > Hope this helps, > Clint > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ======================================================================= Tomorrow, you can be anywhere. ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
