I've spent 3 days trawling the internet and chasing red herrings trying to find an answer to my problem, now it's time to ask the experts!
I've been a happy Calibre and Kindle user for a couple of years now. Many thanks for a fine program! However I bought a Kindle Fire last weekend and I just can't get Calibre to recognise it at all. I am running Linux Mint 14 (just updated, the same problem happened on Mint 13). After installing mtp-tools I am able to transfer files to and from the device using gmtp but the OS doesn't recognise the device as either a drive or an MTP device and Calibre ignores it.
Here is the output from Calibre Debug device detection:
Code:
calibre 0.9.8 isfrozen: True
Linux-3.5.0-17-generic-x86_64-with-debian-wheezy-sid Linux
('Linux', '3.5.0-17-generic', '#28-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 9 19:31:23 UTC 2012')
Python 2.7.3
Linux: ('debian', 'wheezy/sid', '')
USB devices on system:
[['0x4a9', '0x220e', '0x100', u'Canon', u'CanoScan', u''],
['0x15d9', '0xa4d', '0x100', u'', u'USB OPTICAL MOUSE', u''],
['0xbda',
'0x111',
'0x1122',
u'Generic',
u'USB 2.0 Reader',
u'020123014067000605'],
['0x1949', '0xa', '0x216', u'Amazon', u'Kindle', u'D026A0A02416142W']]
Looking for devices of type: MTP_DEVICE
No known MTP devices connected to system
Looking for devices...
Devices possibly connected: None
This line shows the device being seen on the usb port by Linux
['0x1949', '0xa', '0x216', u'Amazon', u'Kindle', u'D026A0A02416142W']]
but it doesn't seem to be recognised as an MTP device.
Can anybody help me please?
<EDIT> Extra information
My Kindle is a Kindle Fire 2 with 10.2.3 firmware