Temlakos wrote:
Frankly I'm stumbling in the dark here, trying to figure out why, every time I connect this card reader with a card inserted to a box running Fedora Core 1, the whole system hangs. I thought that maybe the processor had something to do with it--but it also crashes my old Gateway Solo 2500SE with the Pentium 233-MHz processor, so the AMD Athlon/Duron issue can't be it.
The symptoms are these: The box probes every drive connected to it, including the floppy and the CD-ROM and any other physical devices. Then, suddenly, it starts flashing the CAPS LOCK and NUM LOCK lights, the mouse won't respond, and in general I need to execute an uncontrolled, unclean shutdown.
What happens if you press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a text terminal, then connect the card reader?
It throughly sounds as though you've got a kernel panic.
James.