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vsk

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Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 70

USB Devices Not Recognized/Detected!

Hello,

I have an External ntfs Hard drive from SimpleTech, a 4th generation Apple iPod, and a Wireless Microsoft Optical Mouse.

Out of these three, only the Wireless Mouse works (and that is occasional). All of these devices function perfectly on Windows and on Ubuntu.

By 'works', I mean 'recognized'. On my previous install of Arch, when I plugged my external hdd in, I got a helpful message about how I can mount it properly. Now, it doesn't display the message or mount at all.. I've tried mounting with /dev/sdb1 and many usbdev combinations but it wont mount...

I have installed libgpod-svn, gtkpod-svn, libipoddevice, and ntfs-3g. My mkinitcpio.conf has been untouched, and I used hwdetect to create a MODULES array in the rc.conf instead of using udev.

What software am I missing, or what can I do to get Arch to recognize my USB devices?
- Thanks!

ps:
DAEMONS=(@syslog-ng @crond @gdm @alsa network hal fam)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: USB Devices Not Recognized/Detected!

maybe you need to add your username to proper groups: hal, dbus, storage

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Rokixz

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From: Šiauliai, Lithuania

Registered: 2007-04-21

Posts: 251

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Re: USB Devices Not Recognized/Detected!

# gpasswd -a USERNAME optical
# gpasswd -a USERNAME storage
# gpasswd -a USERNAME dbus
# gpasswd -a USERNAME hal
# gpasswd -a USERNAME disk

This may help,

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vsk

Member

Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 70

Re: USB Devices Not Recognized/Detected!

I turned udev back on, and added myself to the hal group:

it works wonderfully! Thanks guys!