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evoweiss
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 Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 8:59 pm Post subject: Trying to mount a new kindle [solved] |
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Hi all,
I'm trying to mount a new kindle which I bought via the USB port. Others have described success in doing so, though I am having zero luck. When I plus it into the USB, nothing happens to the kindle and I see no notification in dmesg. I've had no problems using USB sticks and have a portable HDD which is connected via USB.
Has anybody successfully gotten this to work? Do I need to modify my kernel?
Best,
Alex
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evoweiss
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| Jaglover wrote: | | Quote: | | When I plus it into the USB, nothing happens to the kindle and I see no notification in dmesg. |
Nothing in dmesg sounds weird. I'd check if this kindle works with some other computer or booting from some LiveCD. |
I just tried it on two other computers. The first was a modern ubuntu box and the other was a gentoo box which was a bit older. The kindle seemed to work fine in both cases. Of those machines, the ubuntu box has USB 2.0, but the gentoo box is, I think, only a USB 1.0 system. That seems to rule out hardware as the cause. I looked at the dmesg output from the gentoo box and the Kindle attached as a "scsi generic sg2 type 0". I then compared my .config files from my home machine and the work machine. I am betting this is the cause, so when I have a bit of time this evening, I will recompile the kernel on my home machine with the generic scsi drivers to see if that makes a difference. I will report back on any success (or failure).
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evoweiss
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Hi,
Silly me, the monitor's USB hub wasn't connected to the computer (I recently had to move everything out of the room). I also built the generic scsi driver into the kernel.
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