<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 22:18 -0400, Valentin Kuznetsov wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> Hi, since hotplug is depricated in FC5, what is general guidelines to use USB devices? I want hotplug, I don't want to write everytime a new rule in /etc/udev/rule.d/ (: I want to plug and use my USB device and I want to able to do it with KDE. For example I wrote a new rule for my SD-card USB reader, so I was able to add new mount point in /etc/fstab, and was able to invoke mount for this point. But if I use KDE and click on icon I got the following message: "Feature is only available with HAL". So, how should I enable HAL w/ KDE? </BLOCKQUOTE> Open your K-menu and goto administration / server settings / services and enable haldaemon for runlevel 3 and 5. That'll fire it up for ya. That should solve your problem quite handily!! Ric </BODY> </HTML>