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Old 10-26-2010, 11:29 AM   #1
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I am having difficulty with Calibre recognising my Kindle and despite searching the forum I could find no ideas to help me.

Looking at the FAQ in the manual, it was recommended to put into a terminal the following:
grep SYSFS_DEPRECATED /boot/config-`uname -r`
and I should get:
CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 is not set.

I get something very similar:-
# CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 is not set

Is the hash sign important? If not what else should I do, please?
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Old 10-26-2010, 11:51 AM   #2
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# is a comment for the config file. In this case, it means the same thing as CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED_V2 isn't set as a kernel option during compile which is apparently what you're looking for.
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Old 10-26-2010, 11:57 AM   #3
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I don't have any problems (Ubuntu 10.04). I've got Calibre 0.6.42 installed which I downloaded from the repository with the synoptic package manager.
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@Jodelman: What distribution are you using, how did you install calibre, and do you roll your own kernel?

Do you at least see something in dmesg or lsusb when plugging your Kindle (Forgetting calibre, for now)?
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Old 10-26-2010, 02:08 PM   #5
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I am using Ubuntu 10.04 and loaded Calibre by the package manager. When i connect the Kindle I get no messages at all.

Not sure what to do next.
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If you don't see *anything* pertaining to a new USB device when you plug it in in dmesg, and you're using a ubuntu-supplied kernel, I'd assume something's wrong with your USB cord/plug.

Can you get any other USB mass storage device working on this system? Do your Kindle gets detected on another computer/OS?

Does the Kindle switch to the "Connected to USB" screen?
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I don't have any problems (Ubuntu 10.04). I've got Calibre 0.6.42 installed which I downloaded from the repository with the synoptic package manager.
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Old 10-26-2010, 05:44 PM   #8
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I have no problem with other mass storage devices on Ubuntu. I still have Windows XP on another partition and downloaded Calibre on that to see if it worked. It did, perfectly.

When I plug the Kindle in on Ubuntu, I get a screen on it saying that it is connected to the USB and to eject it if I want to continue using it.

In either state if I try to download a book to it, I get the message "Cannot send:No Device is Connected"
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Old 10-26-2010, 05:51 PM   #9
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you probably have a kindle 3 and you are using the completely outdated calibre package provided by ubuntu. UNinstall it and install the calibre binary from the calibre website.
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Old 10-26-2010, 06:02 PM   #10
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Thanks. Will try that tomorrow.
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Old 10-27-2010, 02:57 AM   #11
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Thanks for the help. I did as suggested and uninstalled the repository copy and installed from the website. Calibre now playing nicely with the Kindle.

Great program. Thanks again.
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Old 10-27-2010, 10:50 AM   #12
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Ubuntu 10.10 doesn't have this problem. It installs version 0.7.18 by default.
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