[gentoo-user] Automatically mounting USB mass storage devices (camera)

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

Hi!

Since "recently" (I "of course" don't know since when exactly *G*),
I cannot get KDE or Gnome or ivman to automatically mount my
digicam, when I plug it in. The camera appears as a "USB
Mass Storage devices". In the kern.log, I get the following entries:

Nov 12 20:28:14 blatt usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
Nov 12 20:28:14 blatt scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Nov 12 20:28:14 blatt usb-storage: device found at 5
Nov 12 20:28:14 blatt usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[...]
Nov 12 20:28:19 blatt Vendor: NIKON     Model: NIKON DSC E4300   Rev: 1.00
Nov 12 20:28:19 blatt Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Nov 12 20:28:19 blatt SCSI device sda: 503808 512-byte hdwr sectors (258 MB)
Nov 12 20:28:19 blatt sda: Write Protect is off
Nov 12 20:28:19 blatt sda: Mode Sense: 18 00 00 08
Nov 12 20:28:19 blatt sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 12 20:28:19 blatt SCSI device sda: 503808 512-byte hdwr sectors (258 MB)
Nov 12 20:28:19 blatt sda: Write Protect is off
Nov 12 20:28:19 blatt sda: Mode Sense: 18 00 00 08
Nov 12 20:28:19 blatt sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 12 20:28:19 blatt sda: sda1
Nov 12 20:28:19 blatt Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Nov 12 20:28:19 blatt usb-storage: device scan complete

As you can see, the system made the device available as "sda1".
When I "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt", I can get to the pictures and
what-not on the disk.

I just noticed another strange thing - lsusb isn't finding the
device. Or rather, it's only able to find it when ran with root
rights.

alexander@blatt ~ $ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c00c Logitech, Inc. Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

alexander@blatt ~ $ sudo lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c00c Logitech, Inc. Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 04b0:010e Nikon Corp. Coolpix 4300 (storage)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Strange.

How can I get the system to automatically mount my USB device when I
attach it?

alexander@blatt ~ $ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
autofs4                19844  4
rt2500                169572  1
sd_mod                 16144  0
usb_storage            33412  0
scsi_mod               92772  2 sd_mod,usb_storage
snd_pcm_oss            50720  0
snd_mixer_oss          18176  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss            32896  0
snd_seq_midi_event      7168  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                50192  4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_via82xx            26656  1
snd_ac97_codec         88316  1 snd_via82xx
snd_ac97_bus            2304  1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm                88584  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer              24708  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         10504  2 snd_via82xx,snd_pcm
snd_mpu401_uart         7424  1 snd_via82xx
snd_rawmidi            25120  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8460  3 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi
snd                    52452  13
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_via82xx,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore              10080  1 snd
ext3                  121736  2
jbd                    58260  1 ext3
reiserfs              238448  3
af_packet              22024  2
usbhid                 37088  0
rtc                     9236  0
pcspkr                  3808  0
drm                    69652  0
via_agp                 9600  1
agpgart                33608  2 drm,via_agp
ide_cd                 39940  0
cdrom                  38176  1 ide_cd
cpufreq_conservative     7204  0
cpufreq_ondemand        6300  0
cpufreq_powersave       1920  0
p4_clockmod             4872  0
speedstep_lib           3968  1 p4_clockmod
freq_table              4612  1 p4_clockmod
evdev                   9344  1
psmouse                35204  0
ac                      4868  0
button                  6672  0
video                  15492  0
thermal                13064  0
processor              22844  1 thermal
battery                 9348  0
fan                     4612  0
uhci_hcd               32016  0
usbcore               120064  4 usb_storage,usbhid,uhci_hcd
alexander@blatt ~ $ uname -a
Linux blatt 2.6.14-suspend2.037 #1 PREEMPT Tue Nov 8 20:57:32 CET 2005 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Thanks,

Alexander
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