I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da*

[luke]

try kldstat and see if da.ko is listed. if it isn't, try kldload da
the problem is that while the machine see the usb device attached, it hasn't
loaded the driver for the disk, hence the absense of anything in dmesg about

da0...

good luck. oh, the module might not be called da.ko exactly, but it will
have a
similar name. i'm not at my fbsd box now.