Christopher Shanahan wrote:
Your _usbstick_ was recognized by your system and it appears to have been mounted without errors, as noted by dmesg and lsusb. Unless, of course, the Prolific Technology Flash Disk is a different usb device.?.?.? Konqueror may not have opened automatically, but it certainly looks like the thumbdrive was mounted. Did you look at /media/xxx where your system would normally automatically mount the device? Such as /media/usbdisk?
Thanks, I already knew this :-) Either I don't do anything to fstab, and then I get the right messages when I plug the usbstick in, but Konqueror is not open and the stick is not mounted and has to be mounted manually via a terminal window, or I insert /dev/sda1 -t vfat /media/usbkey or something like this in fstab, in which case a Konqueror window opens, kindly displaying the contents of /media/usbkey, but the usbkey is NOT mounted, which means /media/usbkey is empty unless I open a konsole and type mount /media/usbkey. Why does 9.3 do half the job? thanks for your help anyway FX