Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:03:00 +0200 From: Aniruddha <mailing_list@orange.nl> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD do dbus & hal work? Message-ID: <1224054180.4011.10.camel@debian> In-Reply-To: <20081015064351.GA69937@icarus.home.lan> References: <1223935437.4511.5.camel@debian> <7daacbbe0810140314t18df6da5r44e6cde2c834317a@mail.gmail.com> <1224052599.4011.4.camel@debian> <20081015064351.GA69937@icarus.home.lan>
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On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 23:43 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Thanks, I followed the faq to the letter and it show a dialog when I > > insert a USB stick. Unfortunately when I insert an sdcard still nothing > > happens. > > Can anyone confirm that dbus and/or hald have anything to do with this? > (I thought those were specific to X...) > > When attaching a USB device to a USB port, the kernel will notice the > device has been added and will do the proper enumeration. For example, > when adding a USB hard disk or a USB pen drive, a umass device will be > found, then a daX device should be created (which is what you use to > access the disk; USB storage devices appear as SCSI disks). > > But in the case of a USB device that's already attached to the bus, e.g. > one of those 7-in-1 card readers, I cannot see how adding a SD/MMC card > would cause the hard disk to suddenly show up. > > You would need to run "camcontrol rescan 0", to cause the device to be > re-scanned for any media which was inserted. Thanks for the quick and extensive answer. I'll check the exact behavior of the 7-in-1 card reader somewhat more. -- Regards, Aniruddha
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