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

2007-08-17 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 that NLS support

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 identify

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 recompiling

[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:

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? CLI?

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 the following

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 vista. When I

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 must be

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 what it is) and

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. Unfortunately,

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 errors

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 sector

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 Support -- M

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 to

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 media and

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 your key, is not found. So you have to compile