On Saturday 13 December 2008, John Andersen wrote:

If I plug in an Iphone to my OpenSuse machine (or my kubuntu machine for that matter) it will charge as expected, and OpenSuse sees it as a camera only, but is not able to access it in any way.

When plugged into a windows machine you can drag photos off of the drive (its read only). This is true even if you don't run any apple software on the windows machine.

So what do I need to tell Linux to access the phone as a usb drive: (The camera packages don't work either, but I would be fine with just being able to access the device as a usb drive).

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On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 8:05 PM, medwinz wrote:

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:24 AM, John Andersen wrote:

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So what do I need to tell Linux to access the phone as a usb drive: (The camera packages don't work either, but I would be fine with just being able to access the device as a usb drive).

I don't have Iphone actually, but you can try as a root

# modprobe usb_storage

and check if it knows the Iphone with dmesg or lsusb

regards, medwinz

Yup, I have that loaded (Vmware needs it). Plug it in, and all I see in /var/log/messages is this: Dec 13 22:33:51 gotroot kernel: usb 5-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 47 Dec 13 22:33:52 gotroot kernel: usb 5-3: new device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=1292 Dec 13 22:33:52 gotroot kernel: usb 5-3: new device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 Dec 13 22:33:52 gotroot kernel: usb 5-3: Product: iPhone Dec 13 22:33:52 gotroot kernel: usb 5-3: Manufacturer: Apple Inc. Dec 13 22:33:52 gotroot kernel: usb 5-3: SerialNumber: b2aff64695301fc1646f60381f801fafd005da89 Dec 13 22:33:52 gotroot kernel: usb 5-3: configuration #1 chosen from 3 choices The icon shows up on the desktop, but it can't be browsed. Digicam can't see any photos on it. Note: it mounts in windows as a read only device. Steve Jobs is extremely paranoid that someone might put a photo on there without going thru his lame Itunes interface. In the same linux machine, I run Vmware. In Vmware I run a Windows XP virtual machine. That virtusl machine can read photos off the iphone, so there is no hardware issue anywhere along the way. -- ----------JSA--------- Someone stole my tag line, so now I have this rental. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

medwinz wrote:

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 1:39 PM, John Andersen wrote:

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Note: it mounts in windows as a read only device. Steve Jobs is extremely paranoid that someone might put a photo on there without going thru his lame Itunes interface.

In the same linux machine, I run Vmware. In Vmware I run a Windows XP virtual machine. That virtusl machine can read photos off the iphone, so there is no hardware issue anywhere along the way.

You're right :-)

Maybe it can help (from google): http://tips4linux.com/copy-images-in-linux-from-the-iphones-picture-folder/ http://lifehacker.com/394046/copy-music-from-your-iphone-or-ipod-to-your-com... http://iphoneoverdose.com/2008/how-to-copy-your-iphone-pictures-under-linux/

regards, medwinz

Most of those have to do with grabbing music off of the iphone, not photos, and all of them require jailbreaking, which I am not allowed to do (its a corporate phone). Accessing the photos directly as a USB device is supported by Apple, and does not require jailbreaking. It just requires Mac or Windows. I was hoping there would be a clean linux way to do the same. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 07:32:30PM -0500, Nkoli wrote:

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:02 PM, John Andersen wrote:

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Accessing the photos directly as a USB device is supported by Apple, and does not require jailbreaking. It just requires Mac or Windows. I was hoping there would be a clean linux way to do the same. --

Looks like the phone is detected as a usb device. Could it just be that it's not mounted? If you do 'fdisk -l' as root, does a new device appear? If so, you should be able to mount it manually.

iPhones also appear as PTP device, but so far I have not seen images exposed by this PTP device. Not sure what Apple does there. Ciao, Marcus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org