Re: Thanks and SOLVED was:Re: Daisy/MP3 player
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:50:53 +0100, Lisi wrote:
> On Friday 22 July 2011 18:59:03 Camaleón wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:44:29 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote:
>> > Lisi <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>On Friday 22 July 2011 17:45:32 Camaleón wrote:
>> >>> Better "dmesg | tail -n 30" to get the latest full 30 lines :-)
>> >>
>> >>Bingo! Thanks, Camaleón!
>> >>I thought I had HAL, but can't seem to find it.
>> >>
>> >>I actually ran your tests before Camaleón's - but hers cracked it.
>> >
>> > So what was the problem? :)
>>
>> Yep... what was the problem?
>
> PEBKAC.
Ouch! X-)
> I needed the device name and couldn't sort it out. The tail command in
> dmesg gave me the device name.
>
> Unfortunately I still couldn't mount it. I suspect more PEBKAC given
> the amount of sleep that I have had recently!
:-)
> I have solved the problem for now with a little lateral thinking. I
> took the memory card out of the device and put it in a card reader. I
> have now copied two more books (audio files of) for a very long train
> journey.
Simple things always work. Well done.
> Life was definitely easier when I could read actual books, but
> I do now have the advantage of being able to "read" and watch the
> scenery go by at the same time. :-)
>
> I'll come back to this when I get back next weekend. Having once had it
> mounted, albeit by accident, I know it can be done.
>
> So any further ideas you have will be very gratefully received, but not
> acted on for 9 days!
Mmm, the SD card should be automatically mounted under "/media" folder.
If it does not, reading dmesg ("full" dmesg >:-P) should help, so when
you have the time, copy/paste the relevant log here so we can review it.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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