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saurabh000345

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USB Devices not showing up

I am new to Arch Linux and I just discovered that my external USB devices are not showing up in the Files app.
I discovered that there is no /media directory either as there used to be in the previous Linux distributions that I have used as of now. I can guarantee that the USB devices were detected as there are relevant details in the *dmesg* output:

[10630.179201] usb 1-10: new high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd
[10630.320283] usb 1-10: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=558a, bcdDevice= 1.00
[10630.320290] usb 1-10: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[10630.320294] usb 1-10: Product: Ultra
[10630.320298] usb 1-10: Manufacturer: SanDisk
[10630.320302] usb 1-10: SerialNumber: 4C530001150911109285
[10659.754026] usb 1-10: USB disconnect, device number 4
[10689.214730] usb 1-10: new high-speed USB device number 5 using xhci_hcd
[10689.355545] usb 1-10: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=558a, bcdDevice= 1.00
[10689.355552] usb 1-10: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[10689.355556] usb 1-10: Product: Ultra
[10689.355560] usb 1-10: Manufacturer: SanDisk
[10689.355564] usb 1-10: SerialNumber: 4C530001150911109285
[10723.552747] usb 1-10: USB disconnect, device number 5
[10728.793552] usb 1-10: new high-speed USB device number 6 using xhci_hcd
[10728.991454] usb 1-10: New USB device found, idVendor=0bc2, idProduct=ab26, bcdDevice= 1.08
[10728.991461] usb 1-10: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[10728.991465] usb 1-10: Product: BUP Slim BL
[10728.991469] usb 1-10: Manufacturer: Seagate
[10728.991472] usb 1-10: SerialNumber: NA9C8V6K

But, there's nothing in the lsblk output:
NAME   MAJ:MIN     RM        SIZE         RO      TYPE    MOUNTPOINT
sda             8:0           0       931.5G          0         disk
├─sda1      8:1           0         550M           0         part           /boot
├─sda2      8:2           0           16G           0         part         [SWAP]
└─sda3      8:3           0         915G           0         part               /
sr0            11:0           1       1024M           0         rom 

So, what should I do next?

PS. It's my first time in this forum so I don't know the constructs of making those sub-scrollable boxes of command outputs.

Last edited by saurabh000345 (2018-12-23 15:05:48)

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I skimmed through the wiki

saurabh000345

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From: West Bengal, India

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Re: USB Devices not showing up

Managed to solve it myself by executing the following commands:
(uname -a)
pacman -Q linux

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WorMzy

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Re: USB Devices not showing up

Those are diagnostic commands, what is it you think they accomplished?

Please edit your first post to use code tags around the terminal outputs.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … s_and_code

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mpan

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Re: USB Devices not showing up

Those commands teach that one needs to reboot after upgrading kernel.

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seth

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Re: USB Devices not showing up

… or to ensure all desired modules are loaded before updating the kernel :-P

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