Getting Fedora to recognize my Kindle

Lee ny6p01 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 3 16:23:39 UTC 2015


I have sometimes found that opening a device  in fdisk enables the
partitions on it to be recognized. However in order for this to work at
least the device must have been recognized (there has to be an entry in
/dev.)
On May 29, 2015 9:25 AM, "David Cary Hart" <dc.hart at slowlyboiledfrog.com>
wrote:

>  On 05/29/2015 12:09 PM, Lee wrote:
>
> Try mounting  the device manually in a terminal.
> On May 29, 2015 8:20 AM, "Ronal B Morse" <ron at morsehouse.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>  No problem with my Android phone- Mounts and seen by ADB.
>>>>
>>>> Where might I start? I would RTFM if I knew which FM to R ;-)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I use Calibre (it's in the Fedora repos). When I plug in my Kindle I
>>> don't mount it, I just run Calibre and it sees it directly.
>>>
>>> If that doesn't work, look at the output of dmesg to check that the
>>> device is being detected when you plug it in.
>>>
>>> poc
>>>
>>>
>> I''m having a similar problem with a portable hard drive.
>> One test you can try: Connect the Kindle then reboot the
>> PC. Is the Kindle mounted and available when the machine
>> comes back up?
>>
>  Nope. Even if I boot into an older kernel.
>
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