FreeBSD and USBmemorystick

[Pieter Donche]

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.
>