getting a usb device (iriver h340) running under fc3

[Arthur Pemberton]

__a__ wrote:

>i have previously gotten my iriver h340 mp3 player mounted under linux.  i did something like 
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>- looking at dmesg to see which sdb showed up
>- mkdir /mnt/H340
>- mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/H340
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>now i'm running fc3
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>  [root at localhost ahoward]# cat /etc/redhat-release
>  Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)
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>  [root at localhost ahoward]# uname -srm
>  Linux 2.6.10-1.760_FC3 i686
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>and, oddly, ther don't seem to be any sdb devices
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>  [root at localhost ahoward]# find /dev -name '*sdb*'
>  [root at localhost ahoward]#
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>nothing shows up as a usb device either
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>  [root at localhost ahoward]# ls /proc/bus/usb/
>  [root at localhost ahoward]#
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>according to yum i seem to have all the usb stuff installed
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>  [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
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>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').
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>thanks for any pointers
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>kind regards.
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Have you checked sda* ?