Edubuntu 7.04 still not working: thumb drives/local dev

[Richard Doyle]

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 12:16 -0700, john wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am still unable to get thumb drives to work under edubuntu 7.04
> I am using the linux-image-server kernel 2.6.20-16-server since I have
> 8 gigs of memory.
> 
> I have added a local user to the fuse group and lsmod shows
> 
> fuse                   46612  1
> 
> lts.conf has this:
> [default]
>     SOUND=True
>     LOCALDEV=True
>     NBD_SWAP=True
>     SYSLOG=server
> 
> LDM_DIRECTX=True
> 
> LOCAL_STORAGE = Y
> 
> 
> 
> however, lspci still show's NO thumb drive and I think this is the
> problem. I think this kernel doesn't have the necessary stuff to use
> thumb drives. Anyway that's my guess since my understanding is that
> thumb drives are supposed to work outside the box.
> 
> Can someone give me some ideas about what to try next?
Does the thumb drive work when plugged into the server?

Any system messages when you try to plug it in:
tail -f /var/log/syslog