On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 23:20:53 -0500, John Pearson <jpearson42@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I can't find the tools I would like to check that. Please suggest something. /sbin/service haldaemon status note the pid ps auxw |grep hald see if the pid from above is listed in the ps output. I have a box synced against the development tree and my usb and compact flash devices are seen by hal and and the fstab entries and mountpoints created. you might watch the /var/log/messages file as you plug the usb devices in and see if you get messages indicating the kernel saw the device and set up the corresonding /dev/ entry for it. as root tail -f /var/log/messages plug in the device you should see a series of messages about usb and scsi. for example kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 6 and then disconnect the device and you should see a usb disconnect message for example: kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 6 This could either be a kernel issue, a udev issue or a hal issue. We need to see where in the process things are failing. The kernel needs to see the usb device then udevd needs to create the associated /dev/ entry like sda, sdb etc... then hal can do its job and create the fstab entry and mountpoint. -jef