Getting Fedora to recognize my Kindle

[Ronal B Morse]

On 05/29/2015 09:12 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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
>

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?

RBM

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