'On Saturday 06 May 2006 11:57, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've got an usb multi-card reader. The device does work, however since I
> run Gentoo it behaves a little different than before. Previously the reader
> would be indentified on boot (usually reserving /dev/sda to /dev/sdd). I
> set up those drives in /etc/fstab and created devices on the desktop to
> mount them as user.
>
> Since using Gentoo the reader apparently is not seen on boot (if no card is
> plugged in). When I plug a card in and try to mount it I get an error
> message (no such device). However, if I open a shell, fdisk the device,
> quit fdisk and close the shell, I can mount the card...
>
> So my guess is that I am missing a small something in my setup but I can't
> find what.
>
> Note that this is annoying, not much more :)
>
> Thierry
>
Sounds like you might be missing a module on startup , try adding 
"usb-storage" to the module autoloading script for your kernel.

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