It worked intermittently at first(appeared as KINGSTON) then nothing. Works perfectly under Windows. I tried X & KDE.
SDHC 8GB removable - requires adaptor of which I tried several(all detect correctly under windows). I have other 4GB that work fine, and a self-contained 8GB stick that also works fine(appears as KINGSTON).

Hi AngryAngry, Welcome to LQ. Please post the result of the following.

What distribution & version are you running?

Good luck. ;-)

It would be good to know the kernel versionMarkus

What does dmesg report when you plug it in? What file system is the card? What type of reader are you using?

13.37
No modifications (I'm a noob - well I installed okay

I don't know what dmesg is.
I assume it is Fat32, as stated above I have tried many different readers - even a motion camera device with USB connection.

13.37 has a 2.6 kernel and my experience is that you will need a 3.* kernel when you have a SDHC card.

Upgrade the kernel or upgrade to 14.0

Markus

/bin/dmesg prints kernel messages. Try 'sudo /bin/dmesg' in a terminal window. There will be a lot of text, so if you want just the latest (& probably most relevant if you're inserting & injecting cards) try 'dmesg | tail'.

I don't think it's an issue with the type of card. When my system is not reading cards, it is not even picking up insertions or ejections. All the same, it's worth trying different cards.

Once I purchased my first SDHC card, it was recognized by the system, but it wasn't "stable". I ran a 2.6 kernel back than and the card wasn't recognized when I inserted it but only when I rebooted. And then when I tried to mount it, it sometimes "disappeared". This were the times when kernel had recently switched to 3.? and I installed a 3.? kernel and the card worked well.

Unlike SDHC cards the SD cards worked also with the stock 2.6 kernel from 13.37.

I would install a more recent kernel. There's a helpful page at SlackDocs http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:sla...kernelbuilding

Markus

The newer SDHC cards will need compatible readers. I have several 8GB micro SDHC cards and I needed to get a new SDHC USB reader. The older 4GB SD cards were fine in the older readers. Had similer issues in WindowsXP on my corporate laptop. The SDHC cards won't be recognized as a USB mass staorage device without the newer adaptors. Really pissed me off for a while until I figured out the common thread (Slackware, Arch, Ubuntu, Mint, WinXP, Win7...).

It seems not all SD cards are created equal... Seems I recal a simalar silliness in the switch from MMC to SD...

I will try that.

Yeah all my other SDHC cards work fine. All the removable ones (use usb adapters) read fine, & I have a self contained 8GB Kingston (they are ALL Kingston, except a few cheap self contained brands) they all read fine. I even got an adaptor with this problematic card! (sorry for poor sentence structure - any contructive criticism would be much welcomed Grammar Nazi's go NUTS!)

@barutanseijin, you've hijacked this thread but your problem is very different from the OP's one. I will report your posts to the Moderators and ask to put them into a separate thread. This will also help you to find a solution.

Markus

@barutanseijin, thread lives here now: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-a-4175439098/

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Thanks unSpawn, I hope that the subject of the OP becomes clearer now.

Markus