KDE-Forum.org

automounting is mostly done by your linux distribution.
What distribution are you using?

Have you tried right-clicking on the device on desktop? There should be an option to automount it somewhere

does the stick show up anywhere at all? you might have turned automounting off in the control center as well.

hansb,

I have been trying to solve the exact same problem with regards to flash drives for a while now. The 'hal daemon' is indeed responsible for the mounting of external devices. I have a 2gb fairly cheap and nasty mp3 device that has never 'hot plugged'. I know through my research that it is far better to have such a device formatted as fat16 as opposed to fat32. I can't recall why this is but will have another search for you.

I have come across many different elements to the subject of hotplugging devices when searching for an answer to this problem. it confuses the hell out of my humble mind.

http://www.lockergnome.com/nexus/linux/2…otplug-devices/

might help but I am unsure of it's contemporary relevance

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ticket/3425

Is the closest I have come to finding out what is wrong with my hotplugging. Personally, I imagine it is possibly down to my hardware.
However, when I enter the bios(press f2 when first screen appears) at boot I notice a message which says 'usb device initialized'. Maybe this is overriding any device I choose to plug post-boot? I don't know for sure. I do know that this problem remains for me.

Lastly, have you looked through the output of 'dmesg' after plugging the device? It may tell you something.

Entering 'lsusb' in a terminal will list all of your active usb ports and any devices which are plugged in.If you can see your device after plugging it post-boot with lsusb you are getting somewhere.
I would suggest posting a thread at launchpad if you can't solve this problem through these or any other forum.

good luck

dkaddict