adam@thebowery.co.uk writes:
I have never had to do anything like that on this box, using a stock Debian kernel 2.4.22-1-k7 and hotplug on unstable. I have had a few bits of weirdness though with my 6 in 1 card reader, but these were to do with a kernel not having "probe all luns" and also it changes the order in which each slot is found depending on if there is media in the reader when it is plugged in.
I can confirm this; in fact, I've been doing it for a couple of years now with at least Fuji and Olympus cameras. Using Debian "testing" with hotplug installed, I have a line in my /etc/fstab that reads
/dev/sda1 /mnt/camera auto defaults,rw,user,noauto 0 0
Any user can then plug in the camera and type
mount /mnt/camera
then copy files from the camera. They can do this manually, or I have a Perl script that renames them to <date>-<frame> format. I also have a Perl script for generating thumbnails and web pages, if anyone's interested; much easier off the command line than with GUI software. ;-)
..Adrian