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Date:      Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:29:00 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and USBmemorystick
Message-ID:  <20081111192900.GA5398@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0811112006430.700@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.63.0811112006430.700@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>

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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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