On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Frank Cox theatre@sasktel.net wrote:
The person who owns the computer in question just sent me an email to say that the card reader is now working. She plugged in her flash drive and that didn't work either, so she rebooted the machine and now the flash drive and the card reader are both working.
So... problem solved. Somehow.
AFAICT, there is something odd about the way card readers work, such that they seem to be passive devices, by which I mean that they don't do anything unless a card is in them when they are plugged into the reading host, and removing the card and plugging in another one doesn't do enough to spark the host's interest.
I have always had to plug the card into the reader, then the reader into the host; after 'umount'ing the device, I unplug the reader, then remove the card to put in another one (if I want to read more than one), then plug the reader back in. Maybe that's just my reader, but I suspect the USB-based ones are not all too different.
Anyway, as long as your problem is solved, that's good. Hopefully.
mhr