Okay, is it a hard drive intall or are you running from the CD?

If you're running from the CD, just have the card in the reader when you boot, you shouldn't need anything else, so stop reading here.

If you have a hardrive install, first check your fstab for a line refering to the card reader as a drive. Mine were listed as sda and so on. You may find that the line is commented out (means there is a "#" at the begining of the line). if that line is there you should be able to access it. If it's there but commented out, you should still be able to access it, after you remove the "#".

If it's not there at all, you will need to add a line to the fstab for it. The simplest way to get the setting correct is to boot from CD witht the card in the reader. You should see a little hard drive on you desk top for he card. Right click on it, and click properties. Then click on the device/location tab. See what the device is. It will probably be something along the lines of "/dev/sda1" No check the fstab for your CDboot and look for a line that refers to that device. COpy it down word for word and reboot without the CD. Now open up your fstab with kate or some other text editer, and add the line you coppied down.

If you want a little hard drive on your desktop for it, do this- On the desktop, right click and then selecet new and then hard disk A box will pop up with various options. set it how you want it and on the device tab just choose the device you added to the fstab.



New to linux and don't now what an fstab is? the fstab is a file in /etc/ that tells linux what partitions and drives are available. This is where you tell it there's a new drive or partition. the file is just named "fstab" without quotes. To edti it, right click on it and selecet "open with" and then pick whatever editer you want. I usualy use kate, but there's a half dozen at least preinstalled and many mroe available.

Of course I should point out that while all this "should" work, it has so far failed completely for me. I've been trying for 11 days now and have yet to access my card reader without booting from the CD.