Re: Which is my USB device?

[John Wendel <jwendel10 comcast net>]

Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> Gustavo Seabra wrote:
>
>
> > Christopher J. Bottaro wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I installed FC3 on my laptop and it has one USB port.  I plugged in my
> > > digicam in that USB port and I want to mount it as a USB file system.  The
> > > problem is that I don't know which device the USB port is associated with.
> > > On my home computer, it is /dev/sdx, but I don't see those options in
> > > /dev/ on my laptop.
> > >
> > > That leads me to a general Linux question.  How are devices assigned?  One
> > > of my computers assigned /dev/sdx to everything, hard drives, optical
> > > drives, USB ports, etc.  Another computer assigned /dev/hdx to my hard
> > > drives and optical drives, but /dev/sdx to my USB ports.
> > >
> > > I also have a KDE question.  Is there anyway to automatically mount my
> > > camera as a USB file system when it is plugged into my laptop?  Is there a
> > > way to detect that it is a camera?  I don't want to mount *every* USB
> > > thing plugged into my laptop as a USB filesystem...
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help.
> >
> >    Take a look at 'man fstab-sync'. There you'll find instructions of
> > how to define a *.fdi file and put it into
> > /usr/share/hal/fdi/95userpolicy/ so that it will recognize your devices
> > practically anyway you want it.
> >
> >    In my case, I have a camera and a usbstick. The usbstick was being
> > recognized with a weird name, and the camera as 'usbstick'. Both
> > appeared in /media when inserted, then I just had to mount them. To have
> > them appearing with the right names, I made a fdi file for each
> > (camera.fdi & usbstick.fdi) that redefined the names of each. Now, using
> > KDE, I could put an icon in my desktop for each of these. When I
> > double-click the icon, it automatically mounts the device (assuming it's
> > connected, of course) and opens Konqueror with it.
>
>
> Cool thanks for the pointer.  I'm actually on vacation right now and just
> want to get some videos off my digicam...I don't really have time to figure
> out this fstab-sync stuff.  I just need to know which device the dang USB
> port shows up as in /dev/...any ideas?  =/
>
> Thanks again.

Normally, I just take a look at the end of /var/log/messages after 
plugging in the device and it says something like "blah, blah, blah 
/dev/sde1". Should be pretty easy to spot.

But I just tried it and all I got was a bunch of errors, looks like 
something has broken my USB again, crap :(

John