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  1. Bug #530277
  2. Comment #52

Comment 52 for bug 530277

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Daniel Kingsley (daniel-kingsley) wrote :

I sympathise with Walter and Hamish (being an Ubuntu novice).

Fortunately my brother in law isn't and was able to talk me through the process.

What I did (with his help) was:

1. Downloaded the patch. You can use the GUI to extract it. I left the extracted folder sitting in the download directory, so the path was /home/daniel/Downloads/keucr in my case (check where your browser has put it).

Then open a terminal and type:

2. sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic [note: this seemed to be unnecessary as they were already there]

3. sudo apt-get install build-essential

4. Then changed directory to the path where the folder is (in my case)
cd ~/Downloads/keucr
[the capital letter is needed] [The tilda seems to be shorthand for /home/yourusername]

5. Then typed the following three instructions (you'll probably need to enter your password after the second one).

make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r` M=`pwd` modules
sudo make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r` M=`pwd` modules_install
sudo depmod -a

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That was it!

I had to restart my machine (perhaps more than once).

I thought it had had no effect and had almost given up. I then restarted my machine with the card in. Again, no effect (at least I thought) as the computer did not respond to me inserting the card , but on checking with the Disk Utility the card was visible! I was able to pull photos off the SD card.

Having unmounted the card using the Disk Utility, I reinserted the card and this time the system responded with a GUI window noting that I'd inserted an SD card and asking which programme I'd like to view it with.

Hope this helps the other newbies like me.