USB Drive is not automounted in LInux

I have a Data Traveller 2.0 and when I put it on a usb port on my open suse 10.2 system, it is not detected. It was working fine a few days ago. It works ok even now on my win98 and winxp systems.

I am not able to open cds burnt from a windows system. all i see is one file, the name of which is full of junk characters.

Thats pretty strange... Haven't faced such a problem so far. Been using Ubuntu, Fedora, and currently Sabayon.

ilugd said:
It was working fine a few days ago.

Was it ? What happened ? Any major updates ?

I don't think there were any major updates as such but i am right now installing a lot of dvd ripper tools through yast inthe background right now. It is downloading. Do you think that could be the reason?

M

Check if HAL is running. Try

Code:

/etc/init.d/hald start

Code:

jsemmanuel@emmanuel:~> /etc/init.d/hald start
bash: /etc/init.d/hald: No such file or directory
jsemmanuel@emmanuel:~> cd /etc/init.d
jsemmanuel@emmanuel:/etc/init.d> ls | grep hal
haldaemon
halt
halt.local
jsemmanuel@emmanuel:/etc/init.d> haldaemon start
bash: haldaemon: command not found
jsemmanuel@emmanuel:/etc/init.d> ./haldaemon start
HAL already started. Not starting.
jsemmanuel@emmanuel:/etc/init.d>

so i guess hal is already starting. What can I do now?
Can anyone tell me how to mount stuff, like if the usb is on sdb or something, how do i use the mount command?
I dont remember changing any setting to stop automounting, though i have vmware installed so maybe since it is sharing the usb drive, it may have changed settings. But my usb mouse works fine.

How to mount an USB Pen Drive
Attach your USB pendrive to Linux computer.
#dmesg
{Check the last lines. It will show the device name used by pendrive for example
/dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1)
#mkdir /pendrive
#mount /dev/sdb1 /pendrive
How to unmount & remove an USB Pen Drive/Hard
Disk from Linux System?
#unmount /pendrive
# eject /dev/sdb1
à {Pendrive will stop blinking. Now
remove it}

this is wat i found

... hope it helps.

wow... Just thought of trying that one out. But as soon as inserted the usb disk, it got detected. Dunno what was the problem that day.

^yes.usb pendrives are mostly detected and automounted in almost all distros.