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Date:      Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:31:20 +0100 (CET)
From:      Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be>
To:        Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and USBmemorystick
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.63.0811112322110.13616@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>
In-Reply-To: <200811112040.10468.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.63.0811112006430.700@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> <200811112040.10468.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>

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I installed (pkg_ad -r) desktopbsd-tools
following instructions from 
http://desktopbsd.net/wiki/doku.php?id=doc:desktopbsd_tools_in_freebsd
I did:
# chgrp wheel /dev/da0
# chmod g+w /dev/da0s1
(I believe USB key is /dev/da0)
# chgrp wheel /dev/ad0
# chmod g+w /dev/ad0s1
(anyway, did that too)
# sysctl vfs.usermount=1
# chmod 1775 /media
# ls -la / | grep media
drwxrwxr-t root wheel /media
# sysctl vfs.usermount=1

started 
$ /usr/local/bin/dbsd-traymounter
inserted an USB memory key
In Konqueror still nothing to see in /media

what's wrong??

> On Tuesday 11 November 2008 20:25:51 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?
>
> This requires HAL-support with KDE and the KDE MEdia Manager enabled in the
> system services. It's fragile to get working and often requires extensive
> knowledge of HAL, dbus and policykit. This is where PC-BSD can be seen as
> SuSE for linux, as it has configured all these things to work out of the box,
> that normally a FreeBSD system administrator would set up.
>
> Alternatively, one can use the desktopbsd-tools from the ports to add some GUI
> system tray apps, among which a removable media manager.
>
> -- 
> Mel
>
> Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
>    and never get to the software part.
>



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