Re: NetBSD vs. smartphones?

[Brad Spencer <brad%anduin.eldar.org@localhost>]

"John D. Baker" <jdbaker%consolidated.net@localhost> writes:

> The smartphone I have can appear as any one of three types of devices
> when plugged into another computer system via USB:
>
>   mass storage
>   MTP device
>   PTP device
>
> It is currently set to identify as a mass storage device.
>
> When I plug it into any of my NetBSD systems, NetBSD reports it as
>
>   umodeswitch
>
> that the device is a mass storage device and that it is disabling
> umass support.
>
> If I reboot the system and drop into userconf to disable umodeswitch,
> the umass driver attaches and reports a device but that it is offline.
> It doesn't matter whether the phone is locked or unlocked at the time
> of attachment, the system reports the drive as offline.
>
> Without divulging information that might make my (or others) phone open to
> compromise, has anyone else dealt with a  situation like this?


libmtp is in pkgsrc and I have use it and the associated utilities it
contains to talk MTP to a smartphone...  a long time ago... but it did
work..


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