Re: Not automounting a USB Cardreader??

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2006 at 10:26:03PM -0800, Rob Blomquist wrote:
>
> > Tonight, I plugged in my USB Cardreader that has worked flawlessly under
> > Ubuntu and Mandriva, and found that I did not get it auto mounted for me
> > under Debian. Wah!
> >
> > Here's the kernel output for the device being detected:
>
> [..]
>
> > From what I could tell, this device seems to be ready to go at
>
> > /dev/sde,
> > but hal (hotplug?) has not picked it up and mounted it for me.
> >
> > Can anyone point me to a direction to correct this problem? Is there
> > more information I need to provide?
>
>
> AFAIK hal/hotplug/udev won't actually perform the automounting itself.
>
> If you're running a GNOME desktop then it's gnome-volume-manager (gvm)
> that's in charge of automounting. The other parts will only tell that
> there's a new device available, then it's up to gvm to decide what to do
> with it.
>
> /M

It might also be necessary to install the package "pmount" and to add
your user to the group "plugdev". We have discussed this recently:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/01/msg01880.html
(That thread concerns Etch; if you are using Sid with the latest version
of KDE or Gnome you have to use the package "dbus" instead of the
package "dbus-1".)

Regards,
           Florian