Somebody in the thread at some point said: >> So what I have is a cheap thing about the size of a floppy >> drive at the front panel which plugs into one of the two USB things >> on the mother board. It has 5 slots for various memeory sticks from >> camera and cell phone and other things. With this kernel (41) the 5 >> slots work but the one USB on this devise does not work. > So - what you really have is an external universal media reader. > Is that type of device covered within the supported hardware? I have seen boxes with a 5 1/4" bay set of flash media sockets *and* a usb socket on the same panel. Earlier in the thread he mentioned he gets his device recognized by usb-storage and allocated a device node /dev/sdg1, so there is no fundamental problem. It makes perfect sense it's an issue local to udev. -Andy
