Hope someone can help. Have done some googling but not so far found a directly relevant entry. I am experiencing some frustration after installing and configuring a SuSe box in the UK for an elderly relative to use in another part of the world.

The Pc survived the trip and SuSe quickly identified all relevant hardware, b u t, for some reason it will not automatically give access to my USB memory stick as it did before... I've not altered fstab or installed any USB devices. What gives?

FSTAB shows:
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0

The stick flashes and attempts to use mount result in the info that proc/bus/usb is already mounted...

I only have three days here and if I can't sort this it'll be back to Windows XP for this box... any suggestions as to what I might do?

Barry

Have you tried accessing the drive through the "My Computer" icon? I remember that you can select "Always do..." in the hardware recognition window. Maybe the device is mounted without further notice.

Hi

Thanks for quick response. Unfortunately the stick is not shown in "my computer"nly the HDD and DVD-R 7 DVD.

BTW, where is the "hardware recognition window"? All I can find is the system/hardware info in YAST - which does not seem to offer any configurable settings..??

There is an applet called 'suseplugger', which opens a window if new hardware is detected and asks what to do with it. In previous SUSE versions, there was a tray-icon you could use to configure this applet, but this has disappeared in 10.0. When I look at the config files in ~/.kde/share/config/susepluggerrc and /opt/kde3/share/config/suseplugerrc, I cannot find any guidelines for USB devices. Maybe you'll find something there?

I suggest you try mounting through /etc/fstab (it's more reliable anyway )
But first of all you need to find out if the device is recognised at all. After plugging-in the device, run 'dmesg' to see if the device was detected and which device-file was assigned. Usually if there is no other SCSI or SATA device, this will be /dev/sda1. Use this device-file to create a line in /etc/fstab, e.g.:

/dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat defaults 0 0

For a little automisation, you can create a desktop icon pointig to that device.

Thanks. I have done as you suggest and got the mounted USB stick on the desktop. As you say it's more reliable - I notice that my autoplay settings for DVDs etc have also been lost in the odd mid-air malaise which seems to have afflicted KDE/Suse between setting up the box at one end and powering up at the other. Still everything works if I make it happen manually and I need to have something that keeps working without user intervention for the next 12 months... Thanks again for the help.

Barry

I just found a possible reason for your problem. I another forum, they suggested there could be a problem with a broken hal rpm. Have a look here, where I describe the fix: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...42#post2210442

abisko00 wrote: "I just found a possible reason for your problem. I another forum, they suggested there could be a problem with a broken hal rpm. Have a look here, where I describe the fix: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...42#post2210442"

Thanks - this sounds promising. Sadly the box in question is now on the other side of the world from me but I'll bear this in mind when I next install SuSe. Barry