Re: USB messed up?

[Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta gmail com>]

On 5/1/05, Paul <paul all-the-johnsons co uk> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have two types of USB card reader. One is an internal 7 in 1 job and
> the other is an external 8 in 1 (on the laptop). Both are recognised by
> hal when I run hal-device-manager, yet neither will read any cards I put
> into them.

Do you have selinux in enforcing mode?  Are you seeing avc errors
related to hal being generated in /var/log/messages when plugging in
that external reader or when inserting media into that external
reader?  There was a recent issue identified with selinux targetted
policy that was keeping hal from operating correctly.

-jef