getting a usb device (iriver h340) running under fc3

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i have previously gotten my iriver h340 mp3 player mounted under linux.  i did something like 

- looking at dmesg to see which sdb showed up
- mkdir /mnt/H340
- mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/H340

now i'm running fc3

  [root at localhost ahoward]# cat /etc/redhat-release
  Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)

  [root at localhost ahoward]# uname -srm
  Linux 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 i686

and, oddly, ther don't seem to be any sdb devices

  [root at localhost ahoward]# find /dev -name '*sdb*'
  [root at localhost ahoward]#

nothing shows up as a usb device either

  [root at localhost ahoward]# ls /proc/bus/usb/
  [root at localhost ahoward]#

according to yum i seem to have all the usb stuff installed

  [root at localhost ahoward]# yum list *usb*
 Installed Packages
  libusb.i386                              0.1.8-3      installed
  libusb-devel.i386                        0.1.8-3                installed
  usbutils.i386                            0.11-6.1               installed
  usbview.i386                             1.0-13                 installed

as you may have guess by this point i'm not much of a hardware guy.  so - why no sdb* devices?  why doesn't dmesg or lsmod show anything when i plug in my h340 (yes it's plugged in and shows itself as 'connected as data').

thanks for any pointers

kind regards.



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