

This command lists all of the hard drives, CDs, DVDs, floppies, SD cards, etc that Ubuntu knows about.

Here is a good guide for understanding lshw which lists an example SD Card reader.Ģ) Then run the following command before inserting the SD card and a few seconds after inserting it: ls -la /dev/sd*. There are a few things you can do to make sure everything is working as expected.ġ) Verify that Ubuntu knows about your SD card slot and what to do with itĢ) Verify that Ubuntu knows you inserted somethingģ) Verify that Ubuntu understands the filesystem on the thing you inserted.ġ) Check the outputs of the commands sudo lspci -v -nn, sudo lsusb, and sudo lshw on the command line.
