On Thu March 23 2006 9:09 am, Per Jessen wrote:
Richard wrote:
I can't find any mention of the USB identifiers in the usb-storage module, but try loading it anyway - "modprobe usb-storage", and see what happens.
No response on loading that module. I think now the phone is just not supported, hopefully, "yet". I was also unable to find it listed at tuxmobile.org last night, where there must be a dozen Motorola phones listed, but as you point out, no A732. Bummer.
Did you check the output from "dmesg"? Try unloading then reloading that module, then run "dmesg". If you're fairly certain that phone has a storage device, I think(!) it *should* report those characteristics to the USB bus, which *should* enable usb-storage to work with it.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
Just did that and nothing more useful than before. Does there have to be a driver or file for the specific phone either in the kernel or somewhere in the distro? I assume the answer to that would be, "Well duh, yeah," that devices must be recognized rather than created on the fly. I do notice that there is no sync program of any kind nor any mention of it in the phone manual so perhaps, even though the OS of the phone is linux-based, it is not intended for access. It has programs like a calendar and so on, but makes no mention of sync-ing with a desktop for either backup or file copy or just ease of entering info into either and sync-ing with both. The phone does have Bluetooth capability and perhaps I should investigate access in that way. Time for more manual reading. Output of dmesg follows: usbcore: deregistering driver usb-storage Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered. usb 2-10: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 11 usb 2-10: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 12 I am taking "registered" here to mean recognize or see, rather than create a major and minor number and assign a device name for access, since those are not part of the log. Thanks for your continued interest and suggestions. Richard