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mariourk

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From: Urk, the Netherlands

Registered: 2007-10-10

Posts: 17

[solved] ArchLinux does not detect my usbstick

Hi,

I just installed ArchLinux a few days ago. Today I wanted to plugin my usbstick. I expected an icon to show up on the Gnome desktop. But nothing happened. Gnome-device-manager doesn't show anything. And dmesg also doens't mention anything about a usbstick plugged in. It's like the system doen's detect it.

Any idea why this is?

Last edited by mariourk (2007-10-21 18:04:27)

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byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: [solved] ArchLinux does not detect my usbstick

Nothing in dmesg? lsusb? Do you have DAEMONS=(...hal...) in rc.conf? gnome-volume-manager is installed?

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mariourk

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From: Urk, the Netherlands

Registered: 2007-10-10

Posts: 17

Re: [solved] ArchLinux does not detect my usbstick

I have both HAL and DBUS in rc.conf.

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond portmap fam dbus hal gdm sshd)

Gnome-volume-manager is installed.

The usb-modules are also loaded

[mario@dagobah ~]$ lsmod | grep usb
usbhid                 38048  0 
hid                    26240  1 usbhid
ff_memless              5256  1 usbhid
usbcore               112520  3 usbhid,ohci_hcd

I'm working with an usb-mouse without any trouble.

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clickit

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From: Athens, Hellas

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 93

Re: [solved] ArchLinux does not detect my usbstick

is your usbstick partitioned ?

pls run gparted, if you have it installed, and tell us what device is connected with it ...

mariourk

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From: Urk, the Netherlands

Registered: 2007-10-10

Posts: 17

Re: [solved] ArchLinux does not detect my usbstick

Gparted only detects /dev/hda

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fs4000

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 20

Re: [solved] ArchLinux does not detect my usbstick

Hello,

I had to join the group 'storage' to be able to mount my usbstick in KDE.
But I also had some problems in other distros, when the sick wasn't partitioned correctly.
It must have a partition table, Windows simply formats the whole stick.

mariourk

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From: Urk, the Netherlands

Registered: 2007-10-10

Posts: 17

Re: [solved] ArchLinux does not detect my usbstick

The problem isn't mounting. The problem is that ArchLinux doesn't detect any stick that is inserted. Dmesg should mention it, when it was detected. En GParted should have detected it too. But somehow, this is not the case.

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DkSoul

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Registered: 2005-11-24

Posts: 34

Re: [solved] ArchLinux does not detect my usbstick

When you connect your usbstick, type

tail /var/log/messages.log

and post it here.

Mossisen

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Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 3

Re: [solved] ArchLinux does not detect my usbstick

I had similar problems when trying to mount my iPod. I installed dbus, hal and ivman, added them to rc.conf and my worries were gone!

Note that it didn't work using only HAL and DBUS. I had to isntall ivman as well.

mariourk

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From: Urk, the Netherlands

Registered: 2007-10-10

Posts: 17

Re: [solved] ArchLinux does not detect my usbstick

Sorry for my late response. I was away for a couple of days, where I had no access to the internet.

Installing and starting ivman seems to have done the trick. Thanks a lot for the tip.

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