On Sat, 08 Jan 2005, Jamie Zawinski wrote: > I'm sorry for asking what you may think is a total newbie question, but > my inability to reliably get pictures off my camera has reached comical > proportions at this point. In the last few years, I've gone through > permutations of three different motherboards, three different CF > readers, and some subset of RH8, RH9, FC2, and FC3, and to this day, the > best way I've found to get pictures off my camera's card has been "plug > it into my girlfriend's mac, and use scp." This is exactly the same experience I have, even including the "girlfriend's mac" bit. I have an lexar usb-2 reader and a nikon coolpix 5400. I always blamed it on the motherboard, but it seems i am not alone. christof -- Christof Damian christof@xxxxxxxxxx