[royeo]

I have Fedora Core-6 and use KDE.

I recently installed FC-6 and it seems to work fine except it won't read my card reader, (it has slots for Smartmedia, CF/Microdrive, SD/MMC and Memory Stick, and a USB port). The card reader has a light on it that comes on momentarily when a card is inserted, (when it's working correctly). And then a box comes up allowing me to "Open in a Separate Window". And also an icon was put on the desktop that allowed me to access the card. But now the light comes on and stays on. Now neither a box comes up nor an icon. The Card Reader worked in FC-5. Does anyone know how to fix this or if this can even be fixed.

Thanks,

royeo

 

[saikee]

You are relying Fedora to feed information to your via the desk top.

However you could click root terminal, which requires the root pass word, to investigate the hard ware recognition by the command

fdisk -l

This command list all the partitions of every disk in the box.

With a disk inside the card reader you can tell if it is recognised by the number of hard disks there, their sizes and the partitions ID as USB devices are usually fat16 standard that is type or ID 6.

If Fedora can see it you can always mount it manually.

Say if the partition of the USB device, say sdc1, is needed these commands will mount it for you so that you can access the files in the desktop

mkdir /mnt/sdc1
mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1