[ILUG] USB Card Readers and Nikon D100

[Padraig Brady]

boomer wrote:
> Hi Guys
> 
> I am new to this list so I will give you some brief info about me before I ask 
> the questions.  I am living in Co. Wicklow and currently work in the Civil 
> Service doing almost nothing at all (I wish!).  I currently have linux on 
> three systems, a server (MD 8.2), a pc (Dual Boot MD 8.2 & XP) and my laptop 
> (MD 9.0).
> 
> Now to the meat of the problem.  I have a Nikon D100 Digital Camera which is 
> currently not supported by Gphoto2.

Nice camera by the way. This camera uses Compact Flash which is
essentially an IDE hard disk. So all you need to read/write it is
a cheap (€10) passive adapter for the PCMCIA slot of your laptop.
Then you just do: mount /dev/hde /mnt/flash
To see what I'm talking about, type 2935WS into quicklinx
at http://www.dabs.com/

> Therefore I went out and purchased a 6-in-1 USB card reader to be able to read
 > the card on my linux laptop when I am out and about.

Why didn't you source one that is known to work on Linux?
Anyway this may conform to the USB storage spec and hence
is supported by Linux by just adding the device ID manually
to the driver?

Padraig.