I have an Acer travelmate 2490 (laptop) with SuseLinux 11.0 installed, but am experiencing some small problems.
The SD card in my SD card slot is not recognised again after I remove it (after unmount) and reinsert it. (OK after reboot). This problem has appeared recently, having been no problem about three weeks ago.
And, by the way, there is a similar problem with the wireless LAN. If I lose the signal to the access point, I cannot reactivate access to the WLAN without re-booting
…and sometimes even on rebooting the card is not recognised… Is there more information I can provide? It is a nuisance having to reboot every time I insert an SD card!
…and now with the latest patches for OpenSuse 11.1/KDE3.5 it is working at last. Don’t ask me how, and I am not sure how robust it is. But there were no suggestions from anyone and now it seems to have repaired itself…magic? I doubt it, it was nothing I did, for sure!
…turns out not to be as robust as I thought. I flirted for a moment with KDE 4.1, but did not know how to activate my own familiar desktop content there. I removed the SD card and replaced it. No reaction from the KDE 4.1 configuration. At next login I went back to my KDE 3.5. The SD card was in the slot but no longer mounted. Replacing it did not help, neither did a complete reboot. Back to square one
With KDE 4.x,you don’t get notification by default (although there is a widget available), but the doplhin file manager should be able to see it. If you want to check that the device is recognised type these commands from console:
lsusb
fdisk -l (you’ll need to be root for this one)
If all is good here, try seeing (via dolphin of konqueror) what is mounted in /media.
You are absolutely right. (I don’t think it shows up, though, (or even should do) as a usb device with the lsusb command). I had overlooked the media message that a vfat device was mounted, which is displayed on opening dolphin.:shame:
Many thanks, you’re a genius ;)…now I will have to find out how to link my ‘old’ (KDE3) desktop contents with KDE4…
I am running under 11.1/KDE3.5:
the SD card is mounted and accessible after booting. I then unmount, remove card, reinsert card, but the card does not appear again. Moreover, it is not present any longer under /media as it was before removing it.
harvey@linux-zatr:~> dmesg | tail
input: Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000 as /devices/pci0000:00.1/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0/bluetooth/hci0/hci0:42/input8
wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:1f:3f:a4:90:0e
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with AP 00:1f:3f:a4:90:0e
wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:1f:3f:a4:90:0e (capab=0x431 status=0 aid=
wlan0: associated
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
padlock: VIA PadLock not detected.
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
mmc1: card 5304 removed
linux-zatr:/home/harvey # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000283a4
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 126 1012063+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 4866 9729 39070080 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda3 * 127 4865 38066017+ f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 127 2022 15229588+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 2023 4865 22836366 83 Linux
