[CentOS] CentOS 6 and android connectivity (Nook)

Tue Jul 29 14:59:38 UTC 2014
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

John Doe wrote:
> From: "m.roth at 5-cent.us" <m.roth at 5-cent.us>
>> So, I got my wife a Nook for her b'day. I just plugged it into my
>> system, CentOS 6.5, and what I see is /media/NOOK, and it shows 257k or
so -
>> yes, k, not m or g. It's *not* seeing any directories, etc, and the small
>> thing I'm guessing is firmware, since even when I try mount -o remount
-rw, it
>> is still r/o.
>>
>> Googling, I see mentions of fsmtp, I think it was, and yum shows some
>> mtp libs, but I don't see anything that looks like a driver. Any
suggestions
>> (otherwise, I need to zip up the ebooks we want on her Nook, and take
>> them downstairs to her's and the kid's system, Lose 8, er, Win8.
>
> Maybe this will helps (not sure)...
> http://blogs.ukoln.ac.uk/ukolndev/2013/06/05/getting-mtp-devices-to-work-on-linux-nook-hd/

No joy. I used yumdownloader to get libmtp-devel, and its requirement of
libusb-devel, and the only header file is libmtp.h. I see that
libusb-devel seems to be *nothing* but html files....

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