Daveleh Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 Hi, can anyone tell me whether or not those front panel media card readers, you know ... the ones with the multiple card slots that fit into a bay in the case, work with Linux and more specifically either ML9.0 or ML9.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtweidmann Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 Most of them are just standard USB drives repackaged. These seem to work quite happily in Mandrake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daveleh Posted April 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 Most of them are just standard USB drives repackaged. These seem to work quite happily in Mandrake. Thanks for that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenrox Posted April 30, 2003 Report Share Posted April 30, 2003 my 6 in 1 made by emachine's dont work it gives a ldm partion read error dont know how to fix it any help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dusty1000 Posted May 5, 2003 Report Share Posted May 5, 2003 The ldm message is a kernel bug, just ignore it, or install a newer kernel. I'm using 2.4.21-18mm from Contrib/Cooker and these annoying messages are gone. Perhaps you have to recompile the Kernel with 'Probe all Lun's' in the SCSI config. Some 6 in 1 readers need this to access all slots. Check out the Linux_USB site for this ! ( www.linux-usb.org ) hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenrox Posted May 6, 2003 Report Share Posted May 6, 2003 ok i have tried to compile a kernel with that but it fails i have flowed the instructions dbut still fails maby a link to the cooker kernel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dusty1000 Posted May 6, 2003 Report Share Posted May 6, 2003 OK, download a newer version of the kernel from cooker ( See www.linux-mandrake.com / Cooker button on the left side ) . U must download the src RPM, not the SRPM ! Install this RPM. Then start compiling it. Copy the kernel source from /usr/src/$kernel-name to your $HOME. Open a console, go to this dir, enter: 'make xconfig' a Setup window appears on the screen. With the 'Open File' dialog open $HOME/$kernel-name/arch/i386/defconfig what is the default kernel-config for mandrake. Change the 'LUN' thing. Then just push save, exit xconfig, and enter in console: make dep (wait...) make bzImage (wait...) make modules (wait...) su (enter root pw) make modules_install make install Look at /boot to what file the vmlinuz und the initrd.img symlinks are pointing. For the testing thing, it is better to let them point to the old kernel/initrd. Just create new links, if needed. take a look in the mandrake-control-center for your lilo conf. Sometimes u have to make an entry for the new kernel. Just enter the same configs as the default kernel but for the new kernel and initrd-image. At last, reboot, choose new kernel in lilo, have fun ! I dont't really know what went wrong with compiling your kernel, so I just descibed the whole thing in a short way. If there're any further questions, no problem. hope this helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted May 6, 2003 Report Share Posted May 6, 2003 zenrox, just put a cf card in the slot before your boot ... That message will go away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dusty1000 Posted May 6, 2003 Report Share Posted May 6, 2003 OK, this is true, but with a 6 in 1 reader.... If U do not own all card types, not so good way. But, this is only cosmetic stuff. The reader even works with this error messages. But U have to recompile to probe all LUNs for an 6 in 1 device. Mandrake does not enable this feature by default. I think this is because some IDE-writers (older mitsumi mostly) react very strange when probing all LUNs in ide-scsi. But if you have to recompile, why not using sources without this bug ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dusty1000 Posted May 6, 2003 Report Share Posted May 6, 2003 OK, this is true, but with a 6 in 1 reader.... If U do not own all card types, not so good way. But, this is only cosmetic stuff. The reader even works with this error messages. But U have to recompile to probe all LUNs for an 6 in 1 device. Mandrake does not enable this feature by default. I think this is because some IDE-writers (older mitsumi mostly) react very strange when probing all LUNs in ide-scsi. But if you have to recompile, why not using sources without this bug ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zenrox Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 ok thx dusty1000 the compiles just fine it was the defconfig i couldent rember it ant on the ofical docs as far is i can tell 6-in-1 reader works too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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