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I have just successfully installed VL-soho 5.1.1 on an old Compaq deskpro PII 244MHz 128Mb RAM.

I am pleased with the result but was expecting to see my flashdrive appear on the KDE desktop when plugged into the computers USB port. Nothing appears on the desktop nor can I see anything in the /mnt directory

tail -f /var/log/messages gives the following output:

root@vector~]# tail -f /var/log/messages
Apr 11 07:55:10 vector logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug start (entering script)
Apr 11 07:55:12 vector logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug start (exiting script)
Apr 11 07:55:15 vector hpiod: 0.9.5 accepting connections at 1024...
Apr 11 07:55:21 vector sshd[643]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.

When I plug in the flash drive there is no change to the above output

My /etc/fstab file is as follows:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# The following is an example. Please see fstab(5) for further details.
# Please refer to mount(1) for a complete description of mount options.
#
# Format:
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
#
# dump(8) uses the <dump> field to determine which file systems need
# to be dumped. fsck(8) uses the <pass> column to determine which file
# systems need to be checked--the root file system should have a 1 in
# this field, other file systems a 2, and any file systems that should
# not be checked (such as MS-initrd/mnt or NFS file systems) a 0.

# This is a root linux partition:
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 0 2

# This is a linux ext2 partition:
#/dev/hda2 /mnt/linux ext2 defaults 0 2

# For dos partition use type 'msdos'.
# For win95/98 fat16 or FAT32 partition use type 'vfat'.
#/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat umask=0,quiet,shortname=mixed 0 0

# Floppy disks
# The 'noauto' option indicates that the file system should not be mounted
# with 'mount -a' 'user' indicates that normal users are allowed to mount
# the file system.
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults,noauto,users 0 0
#/dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy auto defaults,noauto,users 0 0

# If you have a ls-120 floppy drive, it could be on /dev/hda b c d etc.
#/dev/hdd /mnt/ls120 auto defaults,noauto,users 0 0

# CDROM, CDWRITER, DVD
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,users 0 0
/dev/cdwriter /mnt/cdwriter iso9660 defaults,noauto,rw,users 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,users 0 0

# NFS file systems:
#linux01.gwdg.de:/suse/6.3/i386.de /mnt/nfs nfs defaults 0 0

# proc file system:
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# sys file system
##sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0

# Unix98 devpts filesystem:
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=666 0 0

# Shared memory filesystem:
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

# Basic USB filesystem
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults,noauto,devmode=666 0 0

# this is for USB pendrive, but you may need to adjust the device
#/dev/sda1 /mnt/pendrive vfat umask=0,noauto,user,quiet,shortname=mixed 0 0

# The 'sw' option indicates that the swap partition is to be activated
# with 'swapon -a'.
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0

and lspci gives:

[root@vector~]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440LX/EX - 82443LX/EX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c900 Combo [Boomerang]
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 01)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 01)
00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA 1064SG [Mystique] (rev 03)

Any advice on how to correct this problem would be greatly appreciated:)