no usb automounting with new kernel

pauledwards03 · 09-25-2008, 09:43 AM

So I decided to try my hand at making a custom kernel, by taking out nearly everything I thought I did not need. So far everything works except for automounting of my usb stick. I used to use KDE and it worked with KDE with the default slackware 12.1 kernel. I switched to fluxbox and got a new kernel and stripped it, now I cannot access my USB stick in any way. lsscsi reports nothing. hal udev and dbus are all running. I loaded into KDE with the root account just to check and sure enough, no USB stick. I am thinking that I missed something in the kernel configuration. This is kernel 2.6.26.5. Can anyone tell me what options to look for in the kernel config about this? Thanks.

I also cannot mount it manually. special device /dev/sda does not exist

BTW USB in general works, I have a USB mouse and it works fine. also dmesg shows this when I remove and plug in the device:

Code:

usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 4
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 5
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 6
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

pauledwards03 · 09-25-2008, 10:16 AM

definitely a kernel issue, just booted with original slackware kernel and I saw "loading usb filesystem driver" and loaded kde with root and i was able to mount the stick. I have the two kernel .configs side-by-side and making adjustments

keefaz · 09-25-2008, 10:20 AM

Maybe CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD is not set ?

-> Device Drivers -> SCSI device support

pauledwards03 · 09-25-2008, 11:25 AM

Indeed. I enabled that and it works. Thanks a lot