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Solved: Can't get Flash drive to work

Whoever

2005-08-27, 8:48 pm

On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Ben Measures wrote:

> Whoever wrote:
>
> Make sure you've not selected:
> in your kernel config, as this cripples the usb-storage module.

It turned out to be a lack of NLS support in my kernel config.
Specifically, I needed to add:
File Systems ->
Native Language Support
-> Codepage 437 AND
-> NLS ISO 8859-1
Now it works.