iphone won't mount as a file storage system ?

[ny6p01 at gmail.com]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:33:59PM -0430, Dokuro wrote:
> is your phone really up to date, cos my unupdated phone mounts from install.
> 
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 11:23 AM, linux guy <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to mount my wife's iphone to download images and videos
> > onto a local hard drive.   I am running a fully up to date F16 x64 OS.
> >
> > I did this several months ago without any issues.
> >
> > Dmesg give me the following.
> >
> > [ 1286.087355] usb 2-1.1: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci_hcd
> > [ 1286.177635] usb 2-1.1: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac,
> > idProduct=12a0
> > [ 1286.177645] usb 2-1.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
> > SerialNumber=3
> > [ 1286.177657] usb 2-1.1: Product: iPhone
> > [ 1286.177659] usb 2-1.1: Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
> > [ 1286.177661] usb 2-1.1: SerialNumber:
> > a10733b8ceb1656487ee7cdf532caad722243961
> > [ 1286.538215] ipheth 2-1.1:4.2: Apple iPhone USB Ethernet device attached
> > [ 1286.573244] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
> > [ 1325.917498] ipheth: ipheth_rcvbulk_callback: urb status: -71
> >
> > I have the usual i device libraries installed, it libimobiledevice,
> > ifuse, gtkpod, etc.
> >
> > It appears that Linux is trying to use the phone as a tethered network
> > connection rather than mounting it as a USB storage device.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to fix this ?
> >
> > Thanks !
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Have you tried making an appropriate entry for it in fstab?

Terry