USB card readers

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:33:22PM -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
 > Hello Everyone,
 > 
 > Are USB card readers (the type that support multiple "media" cards)
 > fairly well supported nowadays?  Could I go buy one, plug it into my
 > Fedora Core 4 laptop, and just have it work, or do I have to be careful
 > and buy only certain brands/models?

It's been a long time since I heard of a problem with the USB ones.
The only problematic card readers right now are the ones found built-in
on newer laptops, which aren't usb. These require new drivers which
won't show up until I push out a 2.6.17 based kernel.

		Dave

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