Hi there,

I am using freebsd 7.0 and I am facing a lot of issues with it. The cd installed fine. I opted for the gnome desktop and tht too installed (though the refresh rates were wrong and the resloution got messed up). After some configurations the desktop was working fine.

Then came the problem of mounting cdrom drives. I had to manually edit the /etc/fstab file and tht too worked fine. Then came the sound issue. I had to compile the kernel for tht too. The sond too worked fine.

The final thing tht does'nt and still not work is the pen drive. It does not mount. though I can see the relavent entries in the fstab but the device does not mount.

can anyone tell me what could possibly be going wrong??

BTW: this is a 5-6 yr old pc

Hello,

Lol, it seems like the computer you are using certainly didn't want to work out of the box It might even give ubuntu a run for its money hehe

By not mounting, do you mean that it does not mount automatically when you plug it in?
if you do as su..

has that mounted it so you can access it in the /mnt directory?

hi,

Thanks for the reply.
need to try out tht command.

P.S:- Ubuntu8.0 cd DID run from the box

I think this is Gnome option. Are you using Gnome on FreeBSD too? Also it won't be recognized if you have disabled the module in the kernel. Unfortunately I'm not in front of FreeBSD box right now and I don't remember the name of the module But it's included in GENERIC.

hi,

yes I was using gnome - during installation I was tht the version was 2.20. I think that is the siurce of the problems. I did add the line dnome_enabled="YES" on the rd.conf file. no go.
you know it is kind of a hassale for newbies to install an OS and start troubleshooting it. Atleast the hardware should be recognised in the first go. hope i am not expecting too much.
btw - i tried installing suse on the pc - no issues at all

I haven't used Gnome on FreeBSD - usually I mount my pen drives manually. If you can do it you can be sure that this is Gnome related problem. Try this:
mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt
where /dev/da0 is the device node and /mnt is the desired mount point.
Also you can check with dmesg if the pen drive is recognized.