

usb 3-1: >new high-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd In the spam you should see something like this. Next, add a file to udev to recognize your device: sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/lesĪdd this line to the end, substituting your USB IDs you figured out above if they are different: SUBSYSTEM="usb", ATTR="0007", MODE="0666"Ĭonnect your Kindle and look to see if the system found it: dmesg

My Kindle Fire HD shows up as " Bus xxx Device yyy: ID 1949:0007 Lab126" Then, since udev and libmtp do not yet know about Kindle Fire do : lsusb The new Kindle Fires can only be managed via a protocol known as MTP, but you can still mount them.įirst make sure you have mtpfs installed. Note: I have created the 'kindle' directory in 'mnt' The same error occurs for sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt/kindle. I then used the mount command suggested by $ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb/ /mnt/kindle/ So we know that my Kindle is recognized on /dev/sdb. Ran dmesg to locate the device: sd 6:0:0:0: Attached SCSI removable diskĬonfirmed it's location: $ sudo ls -l /dev/disk/by-id Unfortunately, I think I don't know enough about the -t flag used with mount. The latter post had an excellent answer (provided by that was making some progress. I have installed calibre, but it is unable to manage any devices until the computer itself has recognized it. My problem is that I am unable to mount my Kindle Fire in order to add books to it. To begin, I have read both Is there a way to get a Kindle Fire to work with 12.04? and How can I transfer files to a Kindle Fire with a Micro-USB cable?
