Linux and Card Reader Support

[Barney T. Administrators]

Do you guys know if Linux now supports these 10 in 1 card readers? I want to convert one of my Windoz boxes to Linux, but I have the internal card reader attached and want to keep this functionality.

What distro supports this?

TIA

Barney

[shrike]

can you give us anything in the way of what brand? model?

[Barney T. Administrators]

This is my own built box. I believe that the card reader is a USB Koutech. It is hooked to an internal USB PCI card and also has audio and additional USB connectors in the front.......

Like this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16820162404

Barney

Edited May 29, 2005 by barneyt

[Mr Byte]

Be prepared to do some hacking.

I haven't tried this but I need to perform the same task. Here are some references:

USB mass storage devices

Multicard readers

[Barney T. Administrators]

Hmmm.. I was hoping that there was some distro that had built-in support.... :huh:

Thanks..

Barney

[raid517]

There probably is. Look at Knoppix - if it can find these drives (as essentially they will register as additional drives) then this should at least provide a strong hint (indeed more than a hint) of what to do next.

GJ

[Barney T. Administrators]

Hmmmm.. maybe I'll download the latest Knoppix live CD and see if they are recognized. Then I can get on to installation.......

Barney

[shrike]

Not sure if this could be of any help... but whenever I connect my digital camera in Fedora Core 3, it mounts as "usbdisk".

Could the same occur when you put the cards in the reader?

[mr_demilord]

  shrike said:

Not sure if this could be of any help... but whenever I connect my digital camera in Fedora Core 3, it mounts as "usbdisk".

Could the same occur when you put the cards in the reader?

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Suse 9.3 supports my photo-camera and usb stick Out of the box, so there is a high change that it will work Out of the box

[raid517]

  barneyt said:

Hmmmm.. maybe I'll download the latest Knoppix live CD and see if they are recognized. Then I can get on to installation.......

Barney

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You could do that. Or of course yu could look at the fstab in knoppix and see what it mounts these drives as - then just edit uour own fstab file.

In any case I wouldn't recommed installing Knoppix as it seems to loose some of that great hardware detection after an install. A better prospect (at the risk of sounding like a broken record) is Kanotix. Based on Knoppix, but with installation specifically designed in, so that you don't loose any hardware detection. And with full Debian Sid compatability as a guranteed feature, you won't run into snags with package updates - like you can with distros like Ubuntu, Mepis, Linspire and so on.

GJ

[msg43]

ok this appears it will work know the usb ports in the front I think it should but I dunno and the audio well you just plugging the audio from the sound card up to that device.

[Barney T. Administrators]

Thanks all for your responses and help. I will give your suggestions a try.

GJ.... I appreciate your input. You don't sound like a broken record.

I do have SuSE 9.2 Pro sitting around. The box I built has lots of more "exotic" features (for lack of a better term) like SCSI card and SCSI CD-ROM, external Sony USB DVD-RW, Internal Zip Drive, ATI 9700 Video Card with S-Video output, and the USB card reader.

It will be a challange to see what disto will pick all of this up! :rolleyes:

Barney

[Barney T. Administrators]

  msg43 said:

ok this appears it will work know the usb ports in the front I think it should but I dunno and the audio well you just plugging the audio from the sound card up to that device.

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Thanks, MSG