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This card reader thankfully turned out to be quite easy to set up in Linux. Not as easy as it should be, of course, but the instructions are quite generic. Note that all of this was done using RedHat 9.

Plug in the reader and view the system messages by becoming root and typing tail -f /var/log/messages. You should see something like this (timestamp and machine name omitted to shrink it down a bit):

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kernel: usb.c: USB device 6 (vend/prod 0x5e3/0x927) is not claimed by any active driver.<br />
/etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup usb-storage for USB product 5e3/927/125<br />
kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...<br />
kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage<br />
kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices<br />
kernel: usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1004<br />
kernel:   Vendor: Generic   Model: STORAGE DEVICE    Rev: 0125<br />
kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02<br />
kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.

I took a guess that it would become /dev/sd1 since my CD-writer probably takes up SCSI device /dev/sd0. So I created an fstab entry that looks like this:

/dev/sda1               /mnt/cardreader         auto    user,rw,noauto  0 0<br />

I then created a folder /mnt/cardreader.

Now with a quick mount /mnt/cardreader I can access whatever card is in the device. I tested this with a Memory Stick card and a CompactFlash card.