Anyone have an example of a working usb storage device with rawhide as of nov 12th?

Willem Riede wrrhdev at riede.org
Sun Nov 13 03:35:51 UTC 2005


On 11/12/2005 09:45:52 PM, John Ellson wrote:
> a tool I found to be really useful was /usr/bin/hal-device-manager  from  
> hal-gnome-0.5.4.cvs20051111-1
> I don't understand why it isn't available in the Applications->SystemTools  
> menu.

I didn't even know that existed - it is a treasure trove of information!
I sure would like it more promently featured too.

> I also have a Sandisk usb not showing up on my Desktop. hal-device-manager  
> is seeing it OK, but I don't see any "info.capabilities" key which is  
> required for it to match the policy in:
> /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-storage-policy.fdi.    I don't know  
> who is supposed to
> set info.capabilities for storage devices - udev perhaps?

Or perhaps hfc_usb, whose complaint it didn't know those attributes started  
this thread?

Regards, Willem Riede.




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