Getting Fedora to recognize my Kindle

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2015-05-29 at 10:54 -0400, David Cary Hart wrote:
> This is probably basic stuff. It's just been a very long time since I 
> 
> have had to do it.
> 
> Simply put, if I plug my Kindle into a USB port, Fedora fails to 
> recognize and mount it as an MTP device. This was working in F-21. 
> Particularly troubling is the failure of ADB to see the device after 
> 21 
> -> 22.
> 
> 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