Simplest way to manage a USB card reader for neophytes (8.2)
Greetings As the IT guy for some friends who have no concept of mounting and unmounting devices, I'm trying to figure out a foolproof way to set up their KDE environment to easily download pictures from their newly acquired card reader (for their camera). Should I have an icon they can click to perform the mounting/unmounting ? Any other creative ways to simplify this task? I think that in Windows one can hotplug/unplug the card within the card reader and the "disk" miraculously appears/disappears in Explorer. Anyone done something similar to this with KDE? On my machine I just use the CLI but my friends are not computer savvy. TIA for your suggestions
I am not 100% sure in 8.2, but on my 9.0 SuSE laptop if I insert a usb flash disk I get a sda1 mounted automatically and an icon pops up on the desktop... Have you tried simply inserting the card reader to see if this happens? Danil expatriate wrote:
Greetings As the IT guy for some friends who have no concept of mounting and unmounting devices, I'm trying to figure out a foolproof way to set up their KDE environment to easily download pictures from their newly acquired card reader (for their camera). Should I have an icon they can click to perform the mounting/unmounting ? Any other creative ways to simplify this task? I think that in Windows one can hotplug/unplug the card within the card reader and the "disk" miraculously appears/disappears in Explorer. Anyone done something similar to this with KDE? On my machine I just use the CLI but my friends are not computer savvy. TIA for your suggestions
Daniel Secareanu wrote:
I am not 100% sure in 8.2, but on my 9.0 SuSE laptop if I insert a usb flash disk I get a sda1 mounted automatically and an icon pops up on the desktop... Have you tried simply inserting the card reader to see if this happens? Danil
expatriate wrote:
Greetings As the IT guy for some friends who have no concept of mounting and unmounting devices, I'm trying to figure out a foolproof way to set up their KDE environment to easily download pictures from their newly acquired card reader (for their camera). Should I have an icon they can click to perform the mounting/unmounting ? Any other creative ways to simplify this task? I think that in Windows one can hotplug/unplug the card within the card reader and the "disk" miraculously appears/disappears in Explorer. Anyone done something similar to this with KDE? On my machine I just use the CLI but my friends are not computer savvy. TIA for your suggestions
My machine is 8.2 and I don't get an icon unless I manually issue a "mount" command.
Try to set the hwscan and hotplug services to on with chkconfig hotplug on, and /etc/init.d/hotplug start... It should probably work... Daniel
Daniel Secareanu wrote:
I am not 100% sure in 8.2, but on my 9.0 SuSE laptop if I insert a usb flash disk I get a sda1 mounted automatically and an icon pops up on the desktop... Have you tried simply inserting the card reader to see if this happens? Danil
expatriate wrote:
My machine is 8.2 and I don't get an icon unless I manually issue a "mount" command.
On Monday 23 February 2004 17:07, expatriate wrote:
Daniel Secareanu wrote:
I am not 100% sure in 8.2, but on my 9.0 SuSE laptop if I insert a usb flash disk I get a sda1 mounted automatically and an icon pops up on the desktop... Have you tried simply inserting the card reader to see if this happens? Danil
expatriate wrote:
Greetings As the IT guy for some friends who have no concept of mounting and unmounting devices, I'm trying to figure out a foolproof way to set up their KDE environment to easily download pictures from their newly acquired card reader (for their camera). Should I have an icon they can click to perform the mounting/unmounting ? Any other creative ways to simplify this task? I think that in Windows one can hotplug/unplug the card within the card reader and the "disk" miraculously appears/disappears in Explorer. Anyone done something similar to this with KDE? On my machine I just use the CLI but my friends are not computer savvy. TIA for your suggestions
My machine is 8.2 and I don't get an icon unless I manually issue a "mount" command.
I have a SanDisk ImageMate CF, via a USB hub (Belkin). but am not sure what device it is set up as. I've looked at /proc/scsi/scsi and it just shows my CDwriter. I'm using Suse 9.0 on a desktop. I don't get any icon's either. Anybody know how I can identify what device address this is? Phil
Phil Burness wrote:
On Monday 23 February 2004 17:07, expatriate wrote:
Daniel Secareanu wrote:
I am not 100% sure in 8.2, but on my 9.0 SuSE laptop if I insert a usb flash disk I get a sda1 mounted automatically and an icon pops up on the desktop... Have you tried simply inserting the card reader to see if this happens? Danil
expatriate wrote:
Greetings As the IT guy for some friends who have no concept of mounting and unmounting devices, I'm trying to figure out a foolproof way to set up their KDE environment to easily download pictures from their newly acquired card reader (for their camera). Should I have an icon they can click to perform the mounting/unmounting ? Any other creative ways to simplify this task? I think that in Windows one can hotplug/unplug the card within the card reader and the "disk" miraculously appears/disappears in Explorer. Anyone done something similar to this with KDE? On my machine I just use the CLI but my friends are not computer savvy. TIA for your suggestions
My machine is 8.2 and I don't get an icon unless I manually issue a "mount" command.
I have a SanDisk ImageMate CF, via a USB hub (Belkin). but am not sure what device it is set up as. I've looked at /proc/scsi/scsi and it just shows my CDwriter. I'm using Suse 9.0 on a desktop. I don't get any icon's either. Anybody know how I can identify what device address this is?
Phil
I use "hwinfo --usb" as root (after I hear a beep) to see what USB driver (if any) has been attached to the newly plugged-in device. I then use the mount command. Mind you, I've got an assortment of /media/sdxn (x = [a,g] , n = [0,3]) mount points that I can choose. After a successful mount, an icon appears on my desktop. However, both on my 8.2 machine and my wife's 9.0 machine, I have to execute the mount command before the icon shows up.
On Monday 23 February 2004 17:46, expatriate wrote:
Phil Burness wrote:
On Monday 23 February 2004 17:07, expatriate wrote:
Daniel Secareanu wrote:
I am not 100% sure in 8.2, but on my 9.0 SuSE laptop if I insert a usb flash disk I get a sda1 mounted automatically and an icon pops up on the desktop... Have you tried simply inserting the card reader to see if this happens? Danil
expatriate wrote:
Greetings As the IT guy for some friends who have no concept of mounting and unmounting devices, I'm trying to figure out a foolproof way to set up their KDE environment to easily download pictures from their newly acquired card reader (for their camera). Should I have an icon they can click to perform the mounting/unmounting ? Any other creative ways to simplify this task? I think that in Windows one can hotplug/unplug the card within the card reader and the "disk" miraculously appears/disappears in Explorer. Anyone done something similar to this with KDE? On my machine I just use the CLI but my friends are not computer savvy. TIA for your suggestions
My machine is 8.2 and I don't get an icon unless I manually issue a "mount" command.
I have a SanDisk ImageMate CF, via a USB hub (Belkin). but am not sure what device it is set up as. I've looked at /proc/scsi/scsi and it just shows my CDwriter. I'm using Suse 9.0 on a desktop. I don't get any icon's either. Anybody know how I can identify what device address this is?
Phil
I use "hwinfo --usb" as root (after I hear a beep) to see what USB driver (if any) has been attached to the newly plugged-in device. I then use the mount command. Mind you, I've got an assortment of /media/sdxn (x = [a,g] , n = [0,3]) mount points that I can choose. After a successful mount, an icon appears on my desktop. However, both on my 8.2 machine and my wife's 9.0 machine, I have to execute the mount command before the icon shows up.
OK, now the dumb questions start...... I ran hwinfo --usb and the data scrolls off the screen. I tried piping to more and re-directing to a txt file but neither work..... how do I catch the output? Phil
Phil Burness wrote:
On Monday 23 February 2004 17:46, expatriate wrote:
Phil Burness wrote:
On Monday 23 February 2004 17:07, expatriate wrote:
Daniel Secareanu wrote:
I am not 100% sure in 8.2, but on my 9.0 SuSE laptop if I insert a usb flash disk I get a sda1 mounted automatically and an icon pops up on the desktop... Have you tried simply inserting the card reader to see if this happens? Danil
expatriate wrote:
Greetings As the IT guy for some friends who have no concept of mounting and unmounting devices, I'm trying to figure out a foolproof way to set up their KDE environment to easily download pictures from their newly acquired card reader (for their camera). Should I have an icon they can click to perform the mounting/unmounting ? Any other creative ways to simplify this task? I think that in Windows one can hotplug/unplug the card within the card reader and the "disk" miraculously appears/disappears in Explorer. Anyone done something similar to this with KDE? On my machine I just use the CLI but my friends are not computer savvy. TIA for your suggestions
My machine is 8.2 and I don't get an icon unless I manually issue a "mount" command.
I have a SanDisk ImageMate CF, via a USB hub (Belkin). but am not sure what device it is set up as. I've looked at /proc/scsi/scsi and it just shows my CDwriter. I'm using Suse 9.0 on a desktop. I don't get any icon's either. Anybody know how I can identify what device address this is?
Phil
I use "hwinfo --usb" as root (after I hear a beep) to see what USB driver (if any) has been attached to the newly plugged-in device. I then use the mount command. Mind you, I've got an assortment of /media/sdxn (x = [a,g] , n = [0,3]) mount points that I can choose. After a successful mount, an icon appears on my desktop. However, both on my 8.2 machine and my wife's 9.0 machine, I have to execute the mount command before the icon shows up.
OK, now the dumb questions start...... I ran hwinfo --usb and the data scrolls off the screen. I tried piping to more and re-directing to a txt file but neither work..... how do I catch the output?
Phil
Only dumb questions are the unasked ones. Many programs dump to stderr instead of stdout. You've got to redirect sterr (2) to stdout(1) "hwinfo --usb 2>&1 > myfile" will redirect the output to myfile. You can also run the command in a shell and then select all of the text by using the mouse and then dumping to any text editor.
On Monday 23 February 2004 18:42, expatriate wrote:
Phil Burness wrote:
On Monday 23 February 2004 17:46, expatriate wrote:
Phil Burness wrote:
On Monday 23 February 2004 17:07, expatriate wrote:
Daniel Secareanu wrote:
I am not 100% sure in 8.2, but on my 9.0 SuSE laptop if I insert a usb flash disk I get a sda1 mounted automatically and an icon pops up on the desktop... Have you tried simply inserting the card reader to see if this happens? Danil
expatriate wrote: >Greetings >As the IT guy for some friends who have no concept of mounting and >unmounting devices, I'm trying to figure out a foolproof way to set >up their KDE environment to easily download pictures from their newly >acquired card reader (for their camera). >Should I have an icon they can click to perform the >mounting/unmounting ? Any other creative ways to simplify this task? >I think that in Windows one can hotplug/unplug the card within the >card reader and the "disk" miraculously appears/disappears in >Explorer. Anyone done something similar to this with KDE? On my >machine I just use the CLI but my friends are not computer savvy. >TIA for your suggestions
My machine is 8.2 and I don't get an icon unless I manually issue a "mount" command.
I have a SanDisk ImageMate CF, via a USB hub (Belkin). but am not sure what device it is set up as. I've looked at /proc/scsi/scsi and it just shows my CDwriter. I'm using Suse 9.0 on a desktop. I don't get any icon's either. Anybody know how I can identify what device address this is?
Phil
I use "hwinfo --usb" as root (after I hear a beep) to see what USB driver (if any) has been attached to the newly plugged-in device. I then use the mount command. Mind you, I've got an assortment of /media/sdxn (x = [a,g] , n = [0,3]) mount points that I can choose. After a successful mount, an icon appears on my desktop. However, both on my 8.2 machine and my wife's 9.0 machine, I have to execute the mount command before the icon shows up.
OK, now the dumb questions start...... I ran hwinfo --usb and the data scrolls off the screen. I tried piping to more and re-directing to a txt file but neither work..... how do I catch the output?
Phil
Only dumb questions are the unasked ones. Many programs dump to stderr instead of stdout. You've got to redirect sterr (2) to stdout(1)
"hwinfo --usb 2>&1 > myfile"
will redirect the output to myfile.
You can also run the command in a shell and then select all of the text by using the mouse and then dumping to any text editor.
I read the man page.... --log lets you select a file to store the output in. Anyway, I did that but it hasn't helped really. I can see my Yamaha and Ricoh CD writers and the Advansys scsi card, but can't make out the ImageMate CF. Any more clues? Phil
On Monday 23 February 2004 18:27, Phil Burness wrote:
On Monday 23 February 2004 17:46, expatriate wrote:
Phil Burness wrote:
On Monday 23 February 2004 17:07, expatriate wrote:
Daniel Secareanu wrote:
I am not 100% sure in 8.2, but on my 9.0 SuSE laptop if I insert a usb flash disk I get a sda1 mounted automatically and an icon pops up on the desktop... Have you tried simply inserting the card reader to see if this happens? Danil
expatriate wrote:
Greetings As the IT guy for some friends who have no concept of mounting and unmounting devices, I'm trying to figure out a foolproof way to set up their KDE environment to easily download pictures from their newly acquired card reader (for their camera). Should I have an icon they can click to perform the mounting/unmounting ? Any other creative ways to simplify this task? I think that in Windows one can hotplug/unplug the card within the card reader and the "disk" miraculously appears/disappears in Explorer. Anyone done something similar to this with KDE? On my machine I just use the CLI but my friends are not computer savvy. TIA for your suggestions
My machine is 8.2 and I don't get an icon unless I manually issue a "mount" command.
I have a SanDisk ImageMate CF, via a USB hub (Belkin). but am not sure what device it is set up as. I've looked at /proc/scsi/scsi and it just shows my CDwriter. I'm using Suse 9.0 on a desktop. I don't get any icon's either. Anybody know how I can identify what device address this is?
Phil
I use "hwinfo --usb" as root (after I hear a beep) to see what USB driver (if any) has been attached to the newly plugged-in device. I then use the mount command. Mind you, I've got an assortment of /media/sdxn (x = [a,g] , n = [0,3]) mount points that I can choose. After a successful mount, an icon appears on my desktop. However, both on my 8.2 machine and my wife's 9.0 machine, I have to execute the mount command before the icon shows up.
OK, now the dumb questions start...... I ran hwinfo --usb and the data scrolls off the screen. I tried piping to more and re-directing to a txt file but neither work..... how do I catch the output?
Phil
Type the following as root: "hwinfo --usb | less" do NOT type the quotation marks. Space or 'f' or <page down> gets the next screen, 'b' or <page up> gets the previous screen ... -- Best Regards David Barnes
Originally to: Expatriate On 23 Feb 2004, lbox@nellgc.plus.com wrote:
Greetings As the IT guy for some friends who have no concept of mounting and unmounting devices, I'm trying to figure out a foolproof way to set up their KDE environment to easily download pictures from their newly acquired card reader (for their camera). Should I have an icon they can click to perform the mounting/unmounting
? Any other creative ways to simplify this task? I think that in Windows one can hotplug/unplug the card within the card reader and the "disk" miraculously appears/disappears in Explorer. Anyone done something similar to this with KDE? On my machine I just use the CLI but my friends are not computer savvy. TIA for your suggestions
I have two card readers which I plug into the USB port which I find when the hot plugger finds them becomes actibe as SDA(1) on the KDE desktop Sean -- GPG Key Id 120A02FB ICQ: 679813 Jabber: tcobone@jabber.org TCOB1.net hosting service now availble
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:58, expatriate wrote:
Greetings As the IT guy for some friends who have no concept of mounting and unmounting devices, I'm trying to figure out a foolproof way to set up their KDE environment to easily download pictures from their newly acquired card reader (for their camera). Should I have an icon they can click to perform the mounting/unmounting ? Any other creative ways to simplify this task? I think that in Windows one can hotplug/unplug the card within the card reader and the "disk" miraculously appears/disappears in Explorer. Anyone done something similar to this with KDE? On my machine I just use the CLI but my friends are not computer savvy. TIA for your suggestions
You don't mention which version you are using. This is available on 9.0. I haven't tried it but the info seems to point in the direction of what you are searching for. Submount is a system for automatically mounting and unmounting removable media drives like CD-ROMs and floppy disk drives. Once installed, it allows removable media drives to be accessed as if they were permanently mounted. Example line for a CD-ROM drive in /etc/fstab: /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,ro 0 0 Example line for a floppy drive in /etc/fstab: /dev/floppy /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,sync -- Ken Schneider unix user since 1989 linux user since 1994 SuSE user since 1998 (5.2)
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