I am sure this topic has come up before, but I can't find a solution in the archives.
Running SuSE 9.1 I would like the same automount functionality for my multi format card reader as SuSE/KDE provides for CD/DVD drives.
I have a "My Computer" icon on my desktop, inside that I have an icon for each removable drive on my system. If I insert a CD/DVD with data content then it is mounted and a konq file browser window appears on the desktop.
Is it possible to get the same functionality for a USB card reader (each card type appears as a different device) I can mount various card types at will using the mount command, but I have to tail /var/log/messages to check what device that card is assigned to and then manually mount/unmount it.
After I have that bit working I would really like it to detect a card insertion without me having to detach/reattach the reader from the USB ports.
But I am not even sure if that last bit is possible.
Anyone fixed this ? Wayne
On Wednesday 17 November 2004 5:52 pm, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I am sure this topic has come up before, but I can't find a solution in the archives.
Running SuSE 9.1 I would like the same automount functionality for my multi format card reader as SuSE/KDE provides for CD/DVD drives.
I have a "My Computer" icon on my desktop, inside that I have an icon for each removable drive on my system. If I insert a CD/DVD with data content then it is mounted and a konq file browser window appears on the desktop.
Is it possible to get the same functionality for a USB card reader (each card type appears as a different device) I can mount various card types at will using the mount command, but I have to tail /var/log/messages to check what device that card is assigned to and then manually mount/unmount it.
After I have that bit working I would really like it to detect a card insertion without me having to detach/reattach the reader from the USB ports.
But I am not even sure if that last bit is possible.
Anyone fixed this ? Wayne
I have made a tiny bit of progress, typing "devices:/" into konq gave me a "protocol not supported" error which I have solved now by installing kdebase-extras. However "devices:/" only gives me Hard drive partitions, both Optical drives and sysfs. Despite the fact that there is a mountable volume in the card reader it doesn't appear as a drive here.
So is there a way to make extra devices appear under this "devices:/" thing
After a bit of messing around I have almost fixed this, thought I'd post to the list in case anybody else would like to get this working with SuSE 9.1
First I installed the kdebase-extras package for KDE 3.3 (upgraded on my system) This got the devices;/ side tab in Konq working but the icons for my card slots were missing
Then I added some lines to fstab
/dev/sdd1 /mnt/usbd vfat noauto,users,rw 0 0 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usbc vfat noauto,users,rw 0 0 /dev/sde1 /mnt/usbe vfat noauto,users,rw 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbb vfat noauto,users,rw 0 0
Each of these relates to a slot on my reader, not quite sure which is which at the moment.
Then I created the directories under /mnt
That gave me a nice set of 4 extra device icons, complete with right click mount/unmount options (and the green arrow to indicated mounted)
Only two problems remain
1. I can mount a SD card by inserting it and double clicking the sdd1 icon. Up pops a window with my cards contents in and all seems well. But if I then unmount it and insert a Memory Stick it complains that no device is found when I click the sde1 icon. However issuing a mount /dev/sde1 mounts the stick correctly.
2. Because it seems impossible to rename the devices under "devices:/" and because I still cant automount on insertion of media I have to remember which device is which slot. Is there any way I can get automount to work ?
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Wayne Stallwood