FlashCard NOT auto mounted

[David J. Bakeman]

Brian Millett wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 12:02 -0700, David J. Bakeman wrote:
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>>I recently noticed that flash memory cards stuck in an adapter then put 
>>into the pcmcia slot on my FC4 laptop don't auto mount anymore.  I'm 
>>pretty sure that they used to and I know since the last time they did 
>>I've updated my kernel/udev/gnome so anybody know which one is the 
>>culprit?  When I insert the card it's recognized and a device is created 
>>for it  (dmesg output)
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>>pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 1
>>cs: memory probe 0xf4000000-0xfbffffff: excluding 0xf4000000-0xf8ffffff
>>pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia1.0
>>Probing IDE interface ide2...
>>hde: 5in1 Adapter, CFA DISK drive
>>ide2 at 0xe100-0xe107,0xe10e on irq 3
>>hde: max request size: 128KiB
>>hde: 1984000 sectors (1015 MB) w/1KiB Cache, CHS=1968/16/63
>> hde: hde1
>>ide-cs: hde: Vpp = 0.0
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>>No entry is created in fstab though so I have to manually mount this 
>>device.  When I plug in my firewire drives a device is created then a 
>>fstab is created and the drive is mounted and I'm sure this used to work 
>>for the flash cards as well.
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>>Any ideas?
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>hal.  It was broke for a while, but for fc5, the functionality returned
>with hal-0.5.7.1-2
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My customer can't upgrade to FC5 currently maybe in Dec :<(

I tried to grab the source for hal but when I tried to build the rpm it 
failed because of dependencies which look like they'd be a pain to 
update for FC4.  Anybody know how hard it'd be to patch the hal for FC4?

Thanks.