USB doesn't mount at all, including flash drive, camera, etc., plus I'm a total n00b
 

Correct me if I'm being stupid.

None of my USB ports mount the things I plug in. Is there something I have to do to mount them manually? Or do I have to add the ports into /media or something? Because it doesn't even show that I have USB ports in /media, but I have seen references to them in various directories.

One time, kinda randomly, I found that a ton more things had been detected, including my USB ports and some other stuff, I couldn't tell you, and my USB flash drive (which says its compatible with the Linux kernel I'm using) mounted when I plugged it in. but when I booted up again the next day, it wouldn't detect the drive at all again.

So, I can't get pictures from my camera, because it doesn't detect it, it won't detect a wireless adapter, and it won't detect my flash drive either. I'd reeeeeeaaalllly appreciate some help.

I'm running Ubuntu/Kubuntu (I installed the KDE package while in Ubuntu and I usually log in in a KDE session), I have an eMachines computer bought this past summer, model number T6520. If you need the some specs, although I'm guessing they won't be of much use but I'm just covering all my bases, my processor is an AMD Athlon 64. I seriously doubt you need to know my graphics card, hard drive, RAM, whatever.

So is there something I'm missing, or is this a valid problem?

I don't use ubuntu but you should be able to do it this way.
for my camera I mount it like;
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
I created the dir first
mkdir /mnt/usb
to see what it is called plug it in and then
dmesg

yea... doesn't work. sdb1 doesn't exist-- unique to gentoo maybe?

What did dmesg say? I have a sata hard drive so that is why it is sdb.
Yours may me sda.

[17179569.184000] Linux version 2.6.17-10-generic (root@terranova) (gcc version 4.1.2 20060928 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-13ubuntu5)) #2 SMP Tue Dec 5 22:28:26 UTC 2006 (Ubuntu 2.6.17-10.34-generic)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000037ef0000 (usable)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000037ef0000 - 0000000037ef3000 (ACPI NVS)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 0000000037ef3000 - 0000000037f00000 (ACPI data)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[17179569.184000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[17179569.184000] 894MB LOWMEM available.
[17179569.184000] found SMP MP-table at 000f3fc0
[17179569.184000] On node 0 totalpages: 229104
[17179569.184000] DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
[17179569.184000] Normal zone: 225008 pages, LIFO batch:31
[17179569.184000] DMI 2.4 present.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDP (v000 RS480 ) @ 0x000f7e10
[17179569.184000] ACPI: RSDT (v001 RS480 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x37ef3040
[17179569.184000] ACPI: FADT (v002 RS480 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x37ef30c0
[17179569.184000] ACPI: MCFG (v001 RS480 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x37ef68c0
[17179569.184000] ACPI: MADT (v001 RS480 AWRDACPI 0x42302e31 AWRD 0x00000000) @ 0x37ef6800
[17179569.184000] ACPI: DSDT (v001 RS480 AWRDACPI 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
[17179569.184000] ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
[17179569.184000] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
[17179569.184000] Processor #0 15:12 APIC version 16
[17179569.184000] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
[17179569.184000] IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 21 low level)
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
[17179569.184000] ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
[17179569.184000] Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
[17179569.184000] Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
[17179569.184000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 37f00000:a8100000)
[17179569.184000] Built 1 zonelists
[17179569.184000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda4 ro quiet splash
[17179569.184000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[17179569.184000] mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
[17179569.184000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[17179569.184000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[17179569.184000] Initializing CPU#0
[17179569.184000] PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 16384 bytes)
[17179569.184000] Detected 2393.388 MHz processor.
[17179569.184000] Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
[17179569.184000] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[17179570.108000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[17179570.108000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[17179570.120000] Memory: 898408k/916416k available (1910k kernel code, 17332k reserved, 1069k data, 308k init, 0k highmem)
[17179570.120000] Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
[17179570.200000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4793.57 BogoMIPS (lpj=9587153)
[17179570.200000] Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
[17179570.200000] SELinux: Disabled at boot.
[17179570.200000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
[17179570.200000] CPU: After generic identify, caps: 078bfbff e1d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[17179570.200000] CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 078bfbff e1d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
[17179570.200000] CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
[17179570.200000] CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
[17179570.200000] CPU: After all inits, caps: 078bfbff e1d3fbff 00000000 00000410 00000000 00000000 00000000
[17179570.200000] Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
[17179570.216000] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[17179570.216000] Freeing SMP alternatives: 16k freed
[17179570.216000] checking if image is initramfs... it is
[17179570.604000] Freeing initrd memory: 5584k freed
[17179570.604000] ACPI: Core revision 20060707
[17179570.612000] ACPI: Looking for DSDT ... not found!
[17179570.612000] ACPI: System reset via FADT Reset Register is supported
[17179570.612000] machine_reset = acpi_machine_reset
[17179570.620000] CPU0: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3400+ stepping 00
[17179570.620000] Total of 1 processors activated (4793.57 BogoMIPS).
[17179570.620000] ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
[17179570.620000] ..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
[17179570.620000] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
[17179570.620000] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... failed.
[17179570.620000] ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ... works.
[17179570.804000] Brought up 1 CPUs
[17179570.804000] migration_cost=0
[17179570.804000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[17179570.804000] EISA bus registered
[17179570.804000] ACPI: bus type pci registered
[17179570.804000] PCI: Using MMCONFIG
[17179570.804000] PCI: No mmconfig possible on 0:18
[17179570.804000] Setting up standard PCI resources
[17179570.816000] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
[17179570.816000] ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
[17179570.816000] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
[17179570.816000] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
[17179570.816000] ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
[17179570.816000] PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:14.1
[17179570.816000] Boot video device is 0000:01:05.0
[17179570.820000] PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
[17179570.820000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
[17179570.832000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[17179570.832000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[17179570.832000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[17179570.832000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[17179570.832000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[17179570.832000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
[17179570.832000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *10 11), disabled.
[17179570.832000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
[17179570.832000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
[17179570.836000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
[17179570.836000] Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
[17179570.836000] pnp: PnP ACPI init
[17179570.836000] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
[17179570.836000] PnPBIOS: Disabled by ACPI PNP
[17179570.836000] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
[17179570.836000] PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
[17179570.836000] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 3 of device 0000:00:00.0
[17179570.836000] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x228-0x22f has been reserved
[17179570.836000] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved
[17179570.836000] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0x4d6-0x4d6 has been reserved
[17179570.836000] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0xc00-0xc01 has been reserved
[17179570.836000] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0xc14-0xc14 has been reserved
[17179570.836000] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0xc50-0xc52 has been reserved
[17179570.836000] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0xc6c-0xc6d has been reserved
[17179570.836000] pnp: 00:01: ioport range 0xc6f-0xc6f has been reserved
[17179570.836000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
[17179570.836000] IO window: e000-efff
[17179570.836000] MEM window: fdd00000-fddfffff
[17179570.836000] PREFETCH window: d0000000-dfffffff
[17179570.836000] PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4
[17179570.836000] IO window: d000-dfff
[17179570.836000] MEM window: fdc00000-fdcfffff
[17179570.836000] PREFETCH window: fde00000-fdefffff
[17179570.836000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[17179570.864000] IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[17179570.864000] TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
[17179570.864000] TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[17179570.864000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
[17179570.864000] TCP reno registered
[17179570.864000] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
[17179570.864000] audit(1169999996.864:1): initialized
[17179570.864000] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
[17179570.864000] Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
[17179570.864000] Initializing Cryptographic API
[17179570.864000] io scheduler noop registered
[17179570.864000] io scheduler anticipatory registered
[17179570.864000] io scheduler deadline registered
[17179570.864000] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[17179570.864000] isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
[17179571.220000] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[17179571.236000] Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
[17179571.236000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[17179571.236000] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
[17179571.236000] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 65536K size 1024 blocksize
[17179571.236000] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
[17179571.236000] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
[17179571.236000] PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
[17179571.784000] serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
[17179571.792000] serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
[17179571.800000] EISA: Probing bus 0 at eisa.0
[17179571.800000] Cannot allocate resource for EISA slot 4
[17179571.800000] EISA: Detected 0 cards.
[17179571.800000] TCP bic registered
[17179571.800000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[17179571.800000] NET: Registered protocol family 8
[17179571.800000] NET: Registered protocol family 20
[17179571.800000] Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
[17179571.800000] ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
[17179571.800000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 308k freed
[17179571.840000] input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
[17179572.924000] Capability LSM initialized
[17179572.944000] ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
[17179573.200000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[17179573.204000] libata version 1.20 loaded.
[17179573.204000] sata_sil 0000:00:11.0: version 0.9
[17179573.204000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:11.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[17179573.204000] ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8830080 ctl 0xF883008A bmdma 0xF8830000 irq 177
[17179573.204000] ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF88300C0 ctl 0xF88300CA bmdma 0xF8830008 irq 177
[17179573.408000] ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
[17179573.408000] scsi0 : sata_sil
[17179573.612000] ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
[17179573.612000] scsi1 : sata_sil
[17179573.612000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
[17179573.612000] ata3: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF8832080 ctl 0xF883208A bmdma 0xF8832000 irq 185
[17179573.612000] ata4: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xF88320C0 ctl 0xF88320CA bmdma 0xF8832008 irq 185
[17179573.816000] ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
[17179573.824000] scsi2 : sata_sil
[17179574.028000] ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0)
[17179574.036000] scsi3 : sata_sil
[17179574.148000] ATIIXP: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
[17179574.148000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
[17179574.148000] ATIIXP: chipset revision 0
[17179574.148000] ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
[17179574.148000] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf300-0xf307, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
[17179574.148000] ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf308-0xf30f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
[17179574.148000] Probing IDE interface ide0...
[17179574.436000] hda: WDC WD2000BB-22RDA0, ATA DISK drive
[17179575.108000] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
[17179575.120000] Probing IDE interface ide1...
[17179575.856000] hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[17179576.640000] hdd: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
[17179576.696000] ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
[17179576.704000] hda: max request size: 512KiB
[17179576.712000] hda: 390721968 sectors (200049 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=24321/255/63, UDMA(100)
[17179576.712000] hda: cache flushes supported
[17179576.712000] hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
[17179576.748000] hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(66)
[17179576.748000] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[17179576.756000] hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
[17179578.848000] usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
[17179578.848000] usbcore: registered new driver hub
[17179578.848000] ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
[17179578.848000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
[17179578.848000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
[17179578.848000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[17179578.880000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 201, io mem 0xfe02d000
[17179578.920000] ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
[17179578.940000] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[17179578.940000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179578.940000] hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
[17179579.044000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
[17179579.044000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
[17179579.044000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
[17179579.268000] APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)
[17179579.268000] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[17179579.520000] irq 201: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option)
[17179579.520000] <c01499a4> __report_bad_irq+0x24/0x80 <c0149a9d> note_interrupt+0x9d/0x270
[17179579.520000] <f88f8854> usb_hcd_irq+0x24/0x60 [usbcore] <c0149323> handle_IRQ_event+0x33/0x60
[17179579.520000] <c0149448> __do_IRQ+0xf8/0x110 <c0105c89> do_IRQ+0x19/0x30
[17179579.520000] <c010408a> common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 <c0102080> default_idle+0x0/0x60
[17179579.520000] <c01020aa> default_idle+0x2a/0x60 <c0102122> cpu_idle+0x42/0xb0
[17179579.520000] <c03f07a1> start_kernel+0x321/0x3a0 <c03f0210> unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x270
[17179579.520000] handlers:
[17179579.520000] [<f88f8830>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x60 [usbcore])
[17179579.520000] Disabling IRQ #201
[17179579.520000] ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 201, io mem 0xfe02c000
[17179579.580000] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[17179579.580000] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179579.580000] hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
[17179579.684000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 201
[17179579.684000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller
[17179579.684000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
[17179579.684000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 201, io mem 0xfe02b000
[17179579.684000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
[17179579.684000] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[17179579.684000] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[17179579.684000] hub 3-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
[17179579.788000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
[17179579.788000] PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:02:04.0, from 10 to 9
[17179579.844000] ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[185] MMIO=[fdcfe000-fdcfe7ff] Max Packet=[2048] IR/IT contexts=[4/8]
[17179579.916000] Attempting manual resume
[17179579.976000] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
[17179579.976000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
[17179581.120000] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0010dc0000a1899f]
[17179587.432000] input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input1
[17179587.528000] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
[17179587.724000] Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
[17179587.812000] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
[17179589.040000] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
[17179589.060000] FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
[17179589.388000] input: ImPS/2 Generic Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input2
[17179589.476000] parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
[17179589.476000] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
[17179589.580000] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
[17179589.584000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[17179589.584000] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8966000, 00:13:d3:06:b1:0a, IRQ 177
[17179589.584000] eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
[17179589.740000] ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output
[17179589.912000] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
[17179590.072000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
[17179590.280000] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
[17179590.748000] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
[17179590.764000] ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io=1)
[17179590.764000] ieee1394: sbp2: Try serialize_io=0 for better performance
[17179590.784000] Adding 514072k swap on /dev/disk/by-uuid/3069d0a3-d613-4587-b5ea-10f0980e864e. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:514072k
[17179590.904000] EXT3 FS on hda4, internal journal
[17179591.344000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[17179593.216000] NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
[17179593.272000] NTFS volume version 3.1.
[17179595.156000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[17179595.156000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[17179595.156000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[17179598.644000] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
[17179598.644000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
[17179598.748000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[17179598.772000] pcc_acpi: loading...
[17179599.012000] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.60.2)
[17179599.028000] powernow-k8: BIOS error - no PSB or ACPI _PSS objects
[17179600.584000] apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.16ac)
[17179600.584000] apm: overridden by ACPI.
[17179605.920000] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[17179610.516000] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
[17179610.516000] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[17179610.516000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[17179610.516000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[17179610.552000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[17179610.552000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[17179610.568000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[17179610.568000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[17179610.568000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7
[17181540.372000] APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)
[17181701.720000] usb 3-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[17181702.720000] ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: Unlink after no-IRQ? Controller is probably using the wrong IRQ.
[17181713.264000] usb 3-6: device not accepting address 3, error -110
[17181713.376000] usb 3-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[17181724.920000] usb 3-6: device not accepting address 4, error -110
[17181725.032000] usb 3-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
[17181735.456000] usb 3-6: device not accepting address 5, error -110
[17181735.568000] usb 3-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[17181745.992000] usb 3-6: device not accepting address 6, error -110
[17185442.872000] usb 3-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
[17185454.416000] usb 3-6: device not accepting address 7, error -110
[17185454.528000] usb 3-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
[17185466.072000] usb 3-6: device not accepting address 8, error -110
[17185466.184000] usb 3-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
[17185476.608000] usb 3-6: device not accepting address 9, error -110
[17185476.720000] usb 3-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 10
[17185487.144000] usb 3-6: device not accepting address 10, error -110
[17185857.916000] usb 3-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 11
[17185869.460000] usb 3-6: device not accepting address 11, error -110
[17185869.572000] usb 3-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 12
[17185881.124000] usb 3-6: device not accepting address 12, error -110
[17185881.236000] usb 3-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 13
[17185891.660000] usb 3-6: device not accepting address 13, error -110
[17185891.772000] usb 3-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 14
[17185902.196000] usb 3-6: device not accepting address 14, error -110

Mepis uses a ubuntu kernel, this may give you some pointers.
I think you have an ati usb controller it is OHCI HCD.
http://www.mepis.org/node/12174

i'm sure that may help, but i'm sorry to say i have no idea what the hell is going on. i mean, i'm pretty literate when it comes to computers, but this is above me.

Just add irqpoll to the end of the kernel line in /boot/grub/grub.conf or may be for ubuntu
/boot/grub/menu.lst
just make a new entry on the bottom of the file and copy it exact but add irqpoll
like this

USB devices, particularly storage work without having to configure anything. Odds are you've done something. My familiarity is more with Ubuntu Gnome. Whether or not mounted devices display on the desktop is a configuration parameter you might have set by telling one of these pop ups to do the same thing all the time without notifying you. If set not to display you should still be able to see them in Nautilus or Konqueror. Not seen may not mean not mounted. You can also disable the pop ups that come when a new device is detected. You might also have done yourself in if you made changes to udev rules of fstab. When a storage device is pluged into a USB port, a mount point will show up in /media. Almost all USB devices with storage like SD will mount as if a storage device in /media. In /media you will also see mount points for disk partitions and optical media like a DVD drive.

ok well to respond to fagos, the drive wasnt anywhere in nautilus. it simply wasnt even detected. it wasnt in /media, and it wasnt in /mnt or anything either. i had looked for it for about a day and tried various things before using this forum. it wasnt detected, mounted or anything.

but, i got a flash drive to work... kinda. i did the irqpoll thing, but i did it after i "fixed" it another way.

if i plug it in after i put a cd in the cdrom drive, it is detected in /media and just in /.

there are also new directories in /mnt called usb, USB, and usbflash.

so great, i have the drive where i can work with it... but it says only root can mount it. and thats a problem.

the exact words are: Unable to mount the selected volume.
(in "more details") mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /mnt/usb

so, i enter into the terminal: sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

but when i do that, it says: mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
... and it doesn't, ive checked that. im right in assuming that sda1 is supposed to be a "block file" or something? well, all of the "block files" i see in /dev are already associated with something, like the cdrom or with other things. and there is nothing named sda-anything or sdb-anything in it.

so, i just need to know how to mount it i guess... hopefully...

With the information you've provided an answer should be close at hand from someone that understands more about mounting than I do. /dev/sda1 sounds more like a hard drive and perhaps your problem can be fixed in fstab like it is for hard drives.

Before you can mount it it has to show up in dmesg when you plug it in.
If the kernel does not see it it will never work.

same problem
 

I think I have the very same problem. Just a few days ago I remember using my flash drive in kubuntu 6.10 and it was detected, mounted and an icon placed in the media folder and on the desktop. Now when I insert my flash drive nothing happens. Even the little light on the front of my drive doesn't come on as it should, as in there is no power reaching the drive. I found out though, that by restarting the computer (i'm mostly a windows user still, so thats my solution to everything) the drive would be detected and mounted along with my 2 windows partitions when it is loading up. BUT...if I log out, then log back in (not restarting) both my windows partitions and my USB are no longer mounted, and my USB still cannot be detected if I take it out and insert it again.

The only thing that I can think of is that one of the updates I got through adept (or synaptic in reg. ubuntu) updated the kernel I think, or some headers, i'm not too sure. It was a big update, and I wasn't paying much attention, buts thats the only major change that i'v made recently.

Any Ideas? Anyone else with ubuntu/kubuntu notice these symptoms?

It's a permission problem. Ihad it in Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy).
Try importing images from a camera with

sudo gnome-volume-manager-gthumb

and it will work (if all modules are loaded, of course). It's an Edgy problem, I believe.
Hope that helps.

upro

Wrong drive type
 

sda is for SATA HDDs. Your output, noted in post #5, indicates you are using an ATA, not SATA; so the proper drive notation is hda.

to dazer:
that is exactly what my problem was. i never did do much about it, but i fixed it a slightly different way: i installed feisty herd 3. lol.

fair enough, I suppose it is only 2 months until the new version is released.