On Monday May 31 2004 8:34 pm, Shawn Tanner wrote:

I have a Gateway M675 laptop and have a small problem with the integrated USB card reader.  If I boot with a card in the reader, it behaves as I believe it should.  The card will be accessible and switching cards will result in a knoqueror window opening with the contents of the new card.  There will also be an icon in the "My Computer" folder which links to the card.  If I boot without the card in the reader there will not be a link created in "My Computer" and a konqueror window will not open up.  In this case I can mount the card manually (mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /media/SDCard) and if I do, konqueror will suddenly pop up a window saying new hardware has been detected.

This isn't catastrophic because I can acces the card regardless but I dislike having to access it different ways depending on how I booted.  Any solutions or explanations would be appreciated.

Yes, there is a solution. For whatever reason, SOME card readers have this problem. This solution has worked for me where this has been noted. Open a konsole window, su to root, then umount the card read like: umount /media/sdc1, then put in a new card and mount it: mount /media/sdc1. The "sdc1" assumes that is the mount point for your cardreader. Fred -- "The only secure Microsoft software is what's still shrink-wrapped in their warehouse..." (Forno)