I am a newbie to Linux. I first installed Fedora Core 4 and after a few day browsing discovered Debian philosophy is much closer to original idea of "Free is Freedom", I switched to Debian 3.1. However, my USB memory stick and the audio sound refused to work unlike in FC4.
Could anyone please show me how to diagnose and rectify the problem ?
Thank you.
For usb, you need to install
For usb, you need to install udev and hotplug.
For sound, you need alsa.
Both udev and hotplug are ins
Both udev and hotplug are installed. But it does not appear on the desktop like Fedora automatically did. Am I suppose to manually mount it ? What is the command ?
usbmount
Package: pmount Priority: optional Section: utils Installed-Size: 220 Maintainer: Martin Pitt <mpitt [at] debian [dot] org> Architecture: i386 Version: 0.8-2 Depends: dbus-1 (>= 0.23.4), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libhal0 (>= 0.4.0), libsysfs1 Suggests: hal Filename: pool/main/p/pmount/pmount_0.8-2_i386.deb Size: 51382 MD5sum: e23c4cd9457f9b0285724ad56a427c02 Description: mount removable devices as normal user pmount is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry. This provides a robust basis for automounting frameworks like GNOME's Utopia project and confines the amount of code that runs as root to a minimum. . This package also contains a wrapper "pmount-hal" which reads some information like device labels and mount options from hal and passes them to pmount. Install the package "hal" if you want to use this feature.Package: usbmount Priority: extra Section: admin Installed-Size: 116 Maintainer: Martin Dickopp <martin [at] zero-based [dot] org> Architecture: all Version: 0.0.14 Depends: udev (>= 0.060-1), lockfile-progs Filename: pool/main/u/usbmount/usbmount_0.0.14_all.deb Size: 10260 MD5sum: 9a0ddc5010659d20fa6788c5dc7dbb78 Description: automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices This package automatically mounts USB mass storage devices (typically USB pens) when they are plugged in, and unmounts them when they are removed. The mountpoints (/media/usb[0-7] by default), filesystem types to consider, and mount options are configurable. When multiple devices are plugged in, the first available mountpoint is automatically selected. If the device provides a model name, a symbolic link /var/run/usbmount/MODELNAME pointing to the mountpoint is automatically created. . The script that does the (un)mounting is called by the udev daemon. Therefore, USBmount requires a 2.6 (or newer) kernel. . USBmount is intended as a lightweight solution which is independent of a desktop environment. Users which would like an icon to appear when an USB device is plugged in should use the pmount and hal packages instead. . Homepage: http://usbmount.alioth.debian.org/