Card Readers on SUSE Linux 9.2 Professional?

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By Jason Jones

Digg This - Slashdot This Posted: 30 Mar 2005

I recently went and bought a "9-in-1" card reader and was interested what SUSE Linux 9.2 Professional did with it. I was slightly skeptical about it being "as easy" as it is to use in Windows due to some past experience with my camera.

So, with a slightly skeptical demeanor, I turned off my SUSE box, and plugged the card reader into the internal USB 2.0 port directly on my motherboard.

I then turned it on and waited.

The system started up, and I was presented with my KDE background image and a cursor. I put in a media card into one of the card slots and crossed my fingers.

I sat and waited about 2 seconds before a lovely window popped up out of no where.



I was delightfully proven wrong. I didn't push anything at all, or change anything anywhere to make that window pop up. It just knew there was a card in the slot gave me my options.

I clicked Yes and immediately a new window opened up with directories to where my images were housed.



I navigated to where my images were (which varies on what type of media is inserted and what device was used to create the media) and I easily found my images.



From here I simply dragged and dropped my images into the appropriate folder, took out the card, and I was done!

Looks like SUSE Linux 9.2 Professional is indeed a "media-ready" Operating System, as far as this card reader goes.

Reader Comments

• Just wish it worked out of the box with my PCMCIA card reader like it used to with previous versions of SuSE. Is there anything you can do to fix that? If you want more information about my configuation / card type, please email me at james.c.sharp@sbcglobal.net.
• Update: In this article, the USB cable on the back of the reader was plugged in to the motherboard while the computer was off. I haven't tried plugging it in while the computer is running, but the nature of the device itself is lent to assembly with the computer off.
• You were lucky there are a lot of cheaper USB card readers on the market that currently don't work with Linux. It took me three attempts to find an internal reader that worked. David Bottrill
• The truth is that Linux has still a long way to go concerning card readers: my Amilo D1840W inbuild card reader doesn't work at all...

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