and for the record it was a Ledger Nano S that I want to heap the shame on. It just decided to be coy and not let any USB drive on any computer read it. "ledger says no"
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i already feel really bad for shaming ledger. I'm sure it was my own technical difficulties.
I will try it again
Ha ha, same! Had to do this (see Linux and solution 1 and 2).