USB MP3 player recognition
 

I have an i-bead mp3 player and mandrake 10.1 comunity edition. When the mp3 player is plugged in, it is not recognised. Can someone tell me what i have to do to access its files?

Thanks

the mp3 player most likely will act just like usb pen drive.
the following page explains how to set it up.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1256766,00.asp

su
mkdir /mnt/mp3player
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/mp3player

That might do it

EDIT: Shoot, Finlay beat me to it...

Thanks for the responce guys. Im afraid i really am a newb. I opened up my terminal program and tried both your suggestions to no avail. To "lsmod | more", finlays option it says "command not found".
To burto's suggestion it says ""cannot create directory `/mnt/mp3player': Permission denied". Im guessing i have to log in?

Thanks for the help, this is my my first week of using linux, i really hope ive got the staying power.

you have to su to root then create the /mnt/mp3player

then mount it while u are still root... don't forget to u(n)mount it b4 u unplug it :d

You have to log as root. Type 'su' in a console (the first line in the code of Berto) then enter the root password and with this you can create any directory (but in the opened console), then type what Berto wrote.

And welcome to Linux

lsmod should work
the first letter is a lower case L

Sounds like you didn't run su and /sbin isn't in your $PATH.
Add a dash; use: su -
rather than just: su
that will use a login shell for root -- hence the environment to be setup up, including adding /sbin to $PATH, and avoiding certain possibile security problems , too.