does anyone know how to change that driver so i can test that?

I actually havn't had any problems mounting it yet. I didn't have to change my fstab at all from before I used the usb hub to after. In fact, I think I even have the transfer speeds actually running at full USB1.1 speeds, rather than it pausing indefinately randomly.

Orion, if you want to try out the different USB modules, go through /etc/rc.d/rc.modules. The comments are self-explanatory.

r_jensen11, could you post an explanation of how you got your card reader to work with Slack?

Sorry, I was talking about a 4 port USB hub. For the USB reader, though, I would assume that it would work as 1 of 2 ways:
a) each card has its own drive (e.g. sda, sdb, sdc, sdd, sde, and sdf)
b) each card works as a different partition as part of "disk" sda (e.g. sda1-sda6)

I'm thinking that it would be a). What I would do is check to see what the computer says when you plug the device in initially, and see if it says that the proper device is plugged in. I forget which command this is, but it's the same one that people tell others to use to find out what device their Flash drives/USB keys/ flash readers is. Then if it displays properly, I would do the same, but instead of plugging your reader in, I would plug a card in, then see what it says. After that, I would edit fstab, do some modprobing, and I think that would fix it.

This would work, however, only if the reader is something like USB or firewire, and I believe you said it was USB. So you might have to take it out of your computer and then plug it in through an outside USB port, or if you can safely do so on the inside of the computer while it's running, all the better.

The apacer 6 in 1 card reader is easy to install.

First put the following lines in /etc/modules.conf:
options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=4
below usb_storage sd_mod

Then put the following lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0">/proc/scsi/scsi
echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 1">/proc/scsi/scsi
echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 2">/proc/scsi/scsi
echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 3">/proc/scsi/scsi

Reboot your computer, and you should have the following devices ready for use:

/dev/sda1 - Compact Flash Reader
/dev/sda2 - SmartMedia Reader
/dev/sda3 - MultiMedia card Reader
/dev/sda4 - MemoryStick Reader

BTW
This is done on FedoraCore 1..

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Hans Audun Nesse
Haugesund, Norway

I came across the Fedora/Red Hat solution when I originally google-researched this problem, but unfortunately it doesn't work for Slackware (or Knoppix) because we lack the scsi-mod module.

Have you tried what I suggested?