Sorry to insist, but I still haven't solved my problem, and I don't seem to be the only one experiencing thios: I'm resending this, as I got no answers: I've just installed 9.3 on my wife's laptop. With 9.2, when she inserted her usb-stick, it was mounted automatically and a konqueror window opened and showed the contents. It doesn't any more. I've added /dev/sda1 vfat /media/usbkey -noauto to fstab, and now inserting the key opens a konqueror window, but the key is not mounted. I have to do it manually from konsole. Any ideas to fully automate the process? dmesg May 31 20:49:56 linux kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4 May 31 20:49:56 linux kernel: hub 1-1:1.0: USB hub found May 31 20:49:56 linux kernel: hub 1-1:1.0: 1 port detected May 31 20:49:56 linux kernel: usb 1-1.1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5 May 31 20:49:56 linux kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices May 31 20:49:56 linux kernel: usb-storage: device found at 5 May 31 20:49:56 linux kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: Vendor: Prolific Model: USB Flash Disk Rev:PROL May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00 May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB) May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: sda: Write Protect is off May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 00 06 00 00 May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: SCSI device sda: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB) May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: sda: Write Protect is off May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 00 06 00 00 May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: sda: sda1 May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 May 31 20:50:01 linux kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete May 31 20:50:04 linux /etc/hotplug.d/block/50-hwscan.hotplug[9245]: new block de vice /block/sda May 31 20:50:05 linux /etc/hotplug.d/block/50-hwscan.hotplug[9293]: new block de vice /block/sda/sda1 linux:/home/cecile # lsusb Bus 001 Device 005: ID 067b:2517 Prolific Technology, Inc. Flash Disk Mass Storage Device Bus 001 Device 004: ID 067b:2515 Prolific Technology, Inc. Flash Disk Embedded Hub Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 It was a FAT32 system (remember, in 9.2 it was mounted automatically). Just to make sure, i reformatted it FAT32 in SuSE 9.3 - no change, of course, that was not the problem. my question is: why isn't the usbstick mounted automatically? FXF