Ok, i had everything working until the other day. It was going fine until i tried to automount my drives and royally screwed up. I noticed it was FUBAR, so i just re-installed fedora. That's what sh!t really hit the fan. I lost the access to my external hard drive, and apparently i lost my entire USB host controller, but that's not everything. I also lost the use of my sound card, something I am very attached to. Even lsusb produces ntohing at all to the effect my my usb devices, and it saddens me a great deal. Any help would be appreciated, because despite how fun re-installing Fedora is, i'd rather not do it if it's avoidable.

-J

Well, as you no doubt have realized, once you do a reinstall, you will overwrite any previous configuration work you've done, so it would not be unexpected to find that things do not work the way they did before. As a general comment, I'd suggest doing a reinstall only as a last resort.

Unfortunately, my expectation is that if your system is now totally hosed, then you don't really have much choice except to reinstall again. To address the original problem however, it sounds like you might have just messed up your fstab. As you probably know, if you edit fstab (or any file) the previous version of it will be saved as fstab~ If you realize you've made a mistake, you can restore the previous version of fstab simply by:

That may be too little too late, but it may be useful in the future. Good luck with restoring your system to sanity. -- J.W.

Yea, i figured that i was totally screwed, i guess i just needed to hear it from some one. And i know how i killed my fstab, so i guess i'll just re-install the whole thing again. Joy.

Thanks,
-J