USB flash not recognized

[rolodiaz]

Hello!! New here... but the same problem. I can´t mount my USB pendrive on Kubuntu Breezy. I am running on an old Acer Travel Mate 510, so upgrading to 6.10 is not a choice (unless not until I get a hold on some extra MB of RAM!). Anyway, there is no \dev\sda (or similar). I belive Mr. Udev does not realize I inserted the pendrive! Besides lsusb returns empty-handed... Does that mean that my USB port is not detected? Should I load some kernel modules? Which one?

Thanks in advance,

R

[kubicle]

Re: USB flash not recognized

Firstly, AFAIK 6.06 (Dapper) doesn't need any more memory than 5.10 (Breezy)...so you probably don't need more RAM if you wish to upgrade.

The Desktop CD installer requires 192Mb, but you don't need to use the DesktopCD...you can upgrade with apt or adept (or synaptic), or you can use the Alternate Install CD which is similar to the Breezy Installation CD and requires less ram.

Search the forums if you need help on how to upgrade with apt/adept/synaptic.

Secondly, You can upgrade your KDE to 3.5.x version even if you don't want to upgrade your kubuntu version (KDE 3.5.2 is available for breezy from kubuntu.org, later versions are only available for dapper)...search the forums if you need detailed instructions.

Thirdly, after plugging in the USB-pen, it should be accessible in /media/sda1 (or sda2 or something) despite the error messages you get.

[rolodiaz]

Re: USB flash not recognized

Thanks for the data... I'll reconsider Dapper.

Regarding the pendrive. I don't get any error message. Actually, I don't get anything. Everything seems as if I hadn't plugged anything. And there is no /media/sda (or usb or memstick) nothing!

Help this poor man in despair....

[kubicle]

Re: USB flash not recognized

Ah, sorry, thought you had the common breezy bug.

Are your USB controllers listed with

lspci -v

?

Also, what if anything is shown on the bottom of

dmesg

after plugging in the pendrive?

[rolodiaz]

Re: USB flash not recognized

Sorry for the late response. I´ve been away for a while.

Indeed, the problem was with the USB controllers, I think. The problem was in the BIOS, I think, since I changed everything back to the default options and it now works.

I plug the pendrive and is beautifully detected and mounted at /media/usbdisk. The problem is that konqueror pops up, complaining that /dev/sda1 does not exist (which is, by all means, true). The device created by udev? is /dev/sda o /dev/sdb. How can I tell konqueror to look for those instead of sda1?? And another thing... since no line appears in fstab, I can´t unmount my pendrive... I simple wait until eveything is calm, cross my fingers and unplug it... mmm, is that safe enough?

Thanks for your answers!

R