[wellylug] USB card reader + Mandrake linux

[Brent Wood]

--- Rosemary McGillicuddy <mcgillra at infogen.net.nz> wrote:
> I've just bought a card reader because can't get my camera recognised in 
> mandrake.
> 
> I read instructions on a board and following that took a look using 
> HardDrake - don't know if this is it or not.  Instructions said to look 
> at hda.  It says "old device file: /dev/hda"  and just below " New devfs 
> device:  /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc".

hda is your first (IDE) hard drive. It would normally have nothing to do with
your card reader. Playing with that is not a good idea. Later versions of Linux
have moved away from defining IDE drives simply as hda, hdb, etc, and have used
the more sophisticated approach you describe above.

Post what sort of card reader you have, (IDE, USB etc) & someone here should be
able to help you work out what the device is & how to mount it.

> That's when I should have posted!  Thought I would plug it in and see if 
> it would auto detect on reboot, but it hung at "starting ALSA".  So 
> unplugged it and rebooted without it, but still hung at ALSA.  So here I 
> am in windows begging for help to get mandrake going again.

The simple way for us Mandrake users is to boot off the install disk & run the
repair. Usually fixes the silly things I manage to do to my system.

 <fishing> For those that prefer to wrestle with Linux instead of use their
computer </fishing> you can try booting into failsafe mode & see if that works,
then run drakeconf in text mode to sort out the sound (ALSA = Alternative Linux
Sound Architecture) problem. If you can get to the Hutt or J'ville LUG meetings
with your system I'm sure you'll find willing help. 

Brent Wood