On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Frank Cox <theatre at 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