No vfat support OpenSuse 11?

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#1

So I went to plug in a thumb drive today that’s formatted with FAT and received the following notification:

Cannot Mount Volume.

The volume ‘NEW VOLUME’ uses the vfat file system which is not supported by your system.

I can’t find anywhere how to enable this in the kernel. I’m running an OpenSuse 11 system with all updates installed. Any information or suggestions is greatly appreciate. I also get this error when trying to use 'mount.

#2

VFAT should work without any kludges and the system should autoload the module as needed.

However it’s possible that if you were in the middle of a kernel update while working (as one was released a few days ago and perhaps you didn’t reboot?) and since vfat is compiled as a module it would not have been able to load it.

To test, open a terminal:
su -
modprobe vfat

Then see what happens.