Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-17 Thread Rodrigo Forlin
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote this: > Hi, > > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:03:46 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Add: The recompile worked. Sometimes you can't see what's wrong for >> looking Thanks again for all the help > > Fine! You're welcome, of course! (I somehow doubted tha

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-17 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:03:46 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Add: The recompile worked. Sometimes you can't see what's wrong for > looking Thanks again for all the help Fine! You're welcome, of course! (I somehow doubted that NLS support is required for FAT, too. But it

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-16 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Thursday 16 August 2007 06:11, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > Please give us the output of > "grep NLS /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/source/.config" in order to verify > that you really have cp437 support compiled into your kernel. > ok the grep indicated that cp 437 support isn't there. So I'm recom

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-16 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:45:59 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > trying to mount it from the command line didn't work, here's the > output from dmesg Hm, did you really use "-t vfat"? Your kernel log has other filesystems complaining after the FAT errors... > Unable to ident

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 15 August 2007, "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem': > On Wednesday 15 August 2007 18:38, Xav' wrote: > > You can see here that codepage cp437, which is needed by FAT to mount > &

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 18:38, Xav' wrote: > > You can see here that codepage cp437, which is needed by FAT to mount your > key, is not found. > So you have to compile it in your kernel as module or builtin, as you wish, > by activating the option under > File Systems --> Native Language Suppor

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 18:09, Mick wrote: > Can you still mount it with WinXP/Vista? What do they report as a fs > (under admin tools/Computer Management/Disk manager)? Don't know. I don't have a windows machine and it's a public holiday here, there's no one else in the lab > You may want

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Xav'
Matthew R. Lee a écrit : > On Wednesday 15 August 2007 16:32, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > >> Since I got no idea how to debug the KDE part, all I can suggest is >> issuing the following as root: "mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt" and see >> if it gets mounted beneath /mnt. That way, you can exclude med

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 15 August 2007, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > trying to mount it from the command line didn't work, here's the output > from dmesg > NTFS-fs warning (device sdb1): is_boot_sector_ntfs(): Invalid boot sector > checksum. > NTFS-fs error (device sdb1): read_ntfs_boot_sector(): Primary boot sec

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 16:32, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Since I got no idea how to debug the KDE part, all I can suggest is > issuing the following as root: "mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt" and see > if it gets mounted beneath /mnt. That way, you can exclude media and > kernel issues. If error

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:30:08 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > fstab doesn't mention /dev/sdb1 > normally I just plug the pendrive in, the icon pops up in media:/ in > konqueror, I click on it and do what I need to do Hm, OK, then other daemons come into action. Unfortunat

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 13:53, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:06:50 -0400 > > "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm using udev-104-r13 > > Hm, but udev doesn't do the mount, does it? I would really be > interested whether there is a fstab entry (and wh

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:06:50 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm using udev-104-r13 Hm, but udev doesn't do the mount, does it? I would really be interested whether there is a fstab entry (and what it is) and what mount command you use, if any. Some software actually mu

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 11:55, Matthew R. Lee wrote: > On Wednesday 15 August 2007 11:45, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:34:31 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > A friend of mine recently put a pdf on my pendrive using windows > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Matthew R. Lee
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 11:45, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:34:31 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A friend of mine recently put a pdf on my pendrive using windows > > vista. When I plugged it into my laptop it wouldn't mount. I got > > th

Re: [gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:34:31 -0400 "Matthew R. Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of mine recently put a pdf on my pendrive using windows > vista. When I plugged it into my laptop it wouldn't mount. I got > the following output from dmesg: > [...] How is it mounted? fstab entry? CL

[gentoo-user] pendrive mounting problem

2007-08-15 Thread Matthew R. Lee
A friend of mine recently put a pdf on my pendrive using windows vista. When I plugged it into my laptop it wouldn't mount. I got the following output from dmesg: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 1984000 512-byte hardware sectors (1016 MB) sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: