Mounting SD card with specific encoding

[Ed Greshko]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 27/12/2007, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>> Hummm....  Are you running Ubuntu or Kbuntu?  I ask that since you mention
>> Konqueror and Ubuntu is Gnome based and usually uses Nautilus.
> 
> This is Ubuntu, with KDE added afterward. Not Kubuntu.
> 
>> FWIW, I installed Ubuntu 7.1 and allowed the system to automount the usb
>> disk I created on RHELv4 and it displays the Hebrew just fine.  The
>> "interesting" thing is that the mods loaded are nls_iso8859_1 and nls_cp437.
>>
>> So, details on what OS you are running....and could you let the system
>> automount just for a test?
> 
> I only wish that it would automount. I have no idea why it doesn't.
> 
> Update: I just did some hard googling and I found this command:
> sudo modprobe -r ehci_hcd
> which, when run, then allows the USB media to automount. And when it
> does, the Hebrew works perfectly! I cannot figure out how to add that
> script to my startup as it needs to be done as root, but I think that
> if I google "runlevel" I should find my answer. In any case, I should
> be able to take it from here, though of course advice is still and
> always welcome.

You can try adding "modprobe -r ehci_hcd" into your /etc/rc.local file and
see if that helps.  That would assume the module is being loaded during the
boot process.

> Thank you very much, especially Ed and Tod, I've learned a lot with
> this little 'problem'. That's what Linux is: a new learning experience
> every day! Now off to google...

Good luck....  FWIW, I'm now stumbling around in Ubuntu and trying to figure
out their add software features...  Universe, Multi-Universe, basic.... gosh
make one appreciate yum.  :-)