Going in circles, help please

[rbutler480]

Hi all
I've been trying to understand what it is I need to learn in order to mount hardware ( pci and usb). Everything I find either assumes that dynamic mounting works great. But what if it isn't working? Do I need to learn about udev rules? Hal is deprecated so no sense wasting time with it. Not asking for help so much as just what should I be reading. Seems like most of the searches come up with stuff that is outdated. I want to really have control of my system but get frustrated just trying to figure out what I need to learn about. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated...Thanks

[yancek]

You mount filesystems not hardware. You need a mount point to mount the filesystem to and the mount point is a directory. I googled "mount filesystems in linux" and got 3,500,000 hits. There is no shortage of explanations or tutorials. If you have some specific question, someone here should be able to help with but it's hard to guess exactly what the problem is?

[rbutler480]

Okay then I suppose I should have said get Linux to recognize my hardware. I already have many books that talk about mounting file systems and device directories. Not sure what the point of you saying there are 3.5 *10^6 hits for mounting files systems was other than to possibly try to make me feel inferior and lazy?
I have to reboot to get my system to recognize that there is a pci usb2 card. If I do a lspci it will recognize (not mount) the card, but not at a fast speed according to dmesg. I can then mount my usb external HD. I want to understand why this is happening. To manually configure the hardware I am thinking I'll need to know about udev and possibly device-kit. Gets confusing because there is so much information out there that is outdated. That's why I asked for help on what is pertinent. Hope this clarifies what i'm after. Guess Udev and maybe device-kit, but no HAL. Thanks