Hashimoto Posted August 4, 2004 Report Share Posted August 4, 2004 Well, here I go again.... Fresh install of a MDK10. My CF card reader is not detected in any way. In my earlier instllations it worked flawlessly. Now when I plug it in I can just and just detect a very short blink in the light but it is not detected, I can't see it in hardware list, nothing! What the h... happened. Hotplug? Something else? Hotplug worked without a hitch in my earlier upgraded install. I have had no probs with supermount. I have disabled the hotplug, restarted, you tell me what, but I'm in dark. Please... ( My debt to the board is ever growing) BR Hashimoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 5, 2004 Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 harddrake gives no answers/doesn't give you info on that reader? hmm... this might sound strange, but have you tried the card reader on another comp these last days? maybe something got broken (how old is the device?). other idea is, look at your fstab. maybe some modifications to it will bring that thing back working. if nothing works, give us all info you can get on this "problem". good luck :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashimoto Posted August 5, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 The reader works fine in Windows at my office, so that was not the problem. Linux was the problem and I was missing the fstab lines. Why, I have no idea. I did a very, very unorthodox thing for a linux user: I plugged in the card reader and installed the whole system again. And it works now. Why did I end up doing such a thing? Well, I thought it is faster this way: it only takes some 20 minutes instead of the numerous log-ons via modem, etc. I'm certainly not going to learn much this way.... Ashamed Hashimoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 5, 2004 Report Share Posted August 5, 2004 well, quite unusual behavior of your box, but ... you got it working again ... also in an unusual way. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashimoto Posted August 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Working?? Who am I fooling? It was working OK after the install. Then I updated the system with rpm packages on my HD (downloaded from MDK mirror maybe up to June 20th or so). Later last evening I noticed that the CF reader is dead again. fstab on usb card missing again. So what is the reason? I am starting to think I have some damaged rpm packages. Or is there some bug in the updates? Install-again-Hashimoto ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 hmmm. try to set up easyurpmi-mirrors and try updating again. i am almost sure that one of your rpm-files is the cause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashimoto Posted August 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 I will. It's just that I'm using modem so I got to download all at the office. But that's all done now and burned on a CD, so later in the evening... Hashimoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashimoto Posted August 8, 2004 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 Got it solved: After a lot of playing and so forth I noticed that it was the "nolapic" parameter in the lilo that killed the reader. Without "nolapic" things just work perfectly. Does anybody know why this happened? Hashimoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 8, 2004 Report Share Posted August 8, 2004 don't ask me. lilo does some strange things from time to time, e.g. killing my bootsplash-package once. one "urpmi bootsplash" repaired all. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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