FreeBSD and USBmemorystick

[matt donovan]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:25:51PM +0100, Pieter Donche wrote:
> > If I insert a USB memory stick in my laptop with FreeBSD 7.0 nothing
> > happens. On the same laptop in the SuSE 10.1 partition, the same USB
> > stick appears in Konqueror under Storage Media  and is ready to use)
> > In FreeBSD, Konqueror shows nothing under Storage Media.
> > Is this normal?
>
> What shows up in your kernel message log (outside of X, usually on the
> first virtual console) when you insert the stick?  It should show a
> umass device being added, then a daX device being added.
>
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yes that is normal, think Pieter is talking about Hal being enabled for
konqueror