SD card automounting

Xamindar junkxamindar at gmail.com
Tue Jan 9 08:33:32 PST 2007


David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 03:58 -0800, Xamindar wrote:
>   
>> I have a built in SD card reader in my laptop and I would like to get it 
>> automounted with the hal/gnome-volume-manager combination.  I have 
>> looked around but it doesn't seem anyone else is trying to do this.  
>> When I plug in my sd card dmesg shows:
>>
>> mmcblk0: mmc0:a95c SD256 247040KiB
>>  mmcblk0: p1
>>
>> I then have a /dev/mmcblk0 item in /dev.  I can mount that manually but 
>> it would be easier to have it automounted.  Is hal the right thing I 
>> need to configure for this?  Thanks for any help.
>>     
>
> I don't have this hardware myself but was under the impression this
> "just works" in recent distributions using the Linux kernel / udev / hal
> and GNOME and/or KDE.
>
>       David
>
>
>
>   
Nope, doesn't "just work".  I'm on a 2.6.19 kernel, latest hal/gnome on 
gentoo.  Would be nice to have it work guys.  How can I add it?


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