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On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:49:17 +0000 Adrian Midgley <amidgley2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A card reader came unplugged and is not recognised on replugging it. > > How does one restart the USB subsystem or otherwise persuade it to scan > for devices and then mount those it finds, please? You probably want to restart 'hal' with 'sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart'. Alternatively, rmmod the affected usb driver and modprobe it back. If the card reader was originally detected and mounted by Nautilus (i.e. by a Gnome user in a GUI), logging out and logging back in may be sufficient. (restarting hal also restarts the nautilus subsystem). Also worth seeing if there is a GUI method involving System:Administration:Device Manager. Just starting it could be enough to detect it. Generally, if dmesg is not showing the identification of the card reader when it is plugged in, the relevant usb module is the place to start, using rmmod and modprobe. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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