problem with mounting iphone on F15

[Terry Polzin]

On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 20:17 +0100, Adel ESSAFI wrote:
> 
> no idea??
> 
> 
> 2012/5/6 Adel ESSAFI <adelessafi at gmail.com>
>         Dear list
>         When I plug my iphone to the usb, I get this message and then
>         the iphone is not mounted.
>         
>         dmes prints this messages.
>         
>         Could you help please.
>         
>         
>         the iphone is under ios 5.x
>         
>         
>         [19307.554196] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 8
>         using ehci_hcd
>         [19307.676873] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac,
>         idProduct=1294
>         [19307.676883] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1,
>         Product=2, SerialNumber=3
>         [19307.676891] usb 2-2: Product: iPhone
>         [19307.676896] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
>         [19307.676901] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: ****
>         [19307.880904] ipheth 2-2:4.2: Apple iPhone USB Ethernet
>         device attached
>         [19307.968723] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
>         
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Are you trying to mount as a storage device or you trying to tether you
iphone?  Messages provided indicate that a USB network device was
attached not a storage device.  I don't know if you can tether an iphone
to a fedora machine.