reddragdiva: (gosh!)
divabot ([personal profile] reddragdiva) wrote2009-04-05 12:19 am

Take everything.

Today I ordered a Nokia 5800 for [livejournal.com profile] redcountess as a free upgrade on my current £15/month plan. 24-month plan, but I'm surpassingly unlikely to want to leave Voodoophone before then. Rewarding years-long customers? What an amazing business idea.

The Samba tweaks worked, thank you. usbmount is a bloody idiot. It won't automount a plugged-in USB disk on boot — no, you have to unplug and replug it for it to notice the disk. WHAT. I suppose there's autofs. Any other ideas? (I'm not running X and DBus or any of that rubbish.)

Looking forward to my date with [livejournal.com profile] nyecamden tomorrow! Today.

[identity profile] bionicgeekgrrl.livejournal.com 2009-04-04 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Does seem a bit odd to not mount a usb stick at boot unless its unplugged/replugged.

script foo might solve it perhaps?

[identity profile] steer.livejournal.com 2009-04-05 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
I have something similar with a USB pluggable wifi dongle. It's the same on windows and on linux -- not recognised on boot, plug and unplug and it's fine. I think just sometimes USB on boot "goes wrong". Which is a bit crap.

[identity profile] bionicgeekgrrl.livejournal.com 2009-04-05 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
You migt be able hack the udev rules perhaps?

[identity profile] bionicgeekgrrl.livejournal.com 2009-04-05 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
I do have some usb sticks (and my ipod shuffle g2), that confuse mu pc's bios and prevent booting, that is annoying.

Dunno if the U3/Readyboost features of recent usb sticks is the problem there?

[identity profile] steer.livejournal.com 2009-04-05 08:51 am (UTC)(link)
Yup -- I can confirm that brokenness here too. How can an old technology like USB2 still cause problems? Weird.