I can not mount my USB device!

[lyecdevf]

I have recently updated to 11.0 Suse linux. Now I can not mount any devices like my USB key!

I have googled for a while and realized that the new kernel 2.6.25, USB support has been totally rewritten; as a result, a lot of USB devices have had problems with HAL. I am using this kernel now!

I have here the output of a couple of commands I used so you can look at that:

pastebin - collaborative debugging tool

Than I went on IRC to try and solve this problem and I realized that I have to overcome another issue and this time with the mount point. It just does not recognize it:

lyecdevf@linux:~> sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
root's password:
mount: mount point /mnt/usb does not exist

Only when I ran dmesg it seemed to show that it does find my device. Here is the out put:

usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
usb 1-8: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usb 1-8: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=1603
usb 1-8: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
usb 1-8: Product: DataTraveler 2.0
usb 1-8: Manufacturer: Kingston

Kingston is my USB! So can you help me?

[farinha]

Are you sure that the folder /mnt/usb exists? If not create it.

[lyecdevf]

I created it and guess what. I ran the command again and got this:

lyecdevf@linux:~> sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
root's password:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

Than I went and googled and realized that to fix this one needs to recompile the kernel and I was like...wow...I am not doing this. What should I do?

[Mak213]

Well if you dont want to recompile the kernel. You wont have USB Suipport. So your choices are really:

1. Recomplie for USB Support
2. Install a different distro

[lyecdevf]

Well so far so good! I reinstalled the kernel-default with yast and it works!

So now I only need to make Ktorrent the default application for opening torrents, some how get start icons for Opera, and of course get movies to play on my suse 11.0. I already asked about start up icons for opera on the official suse IRC but so far no luck! So if any one has any time it would be great. Because I still need a lot more help!