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I was wanting to know how to get Mepis 11 to recognize my playbook on a static IP address thru the USB port. I've found some info on the web,http://nex.scrapping.cc/articles/mount-blackberry-playbook-via-usb-on-linux.html, but couldn't get Mepis to recognize the IP address. Did the following:



the instructions then state to use dhcpcd usb0 which produces:



but when I ping the ip address 169.254.100.180, not one packet gets thru.

On the playbook, the IPv4 address says something different and the ping command does not get anything either.

Any suggestions? there were Ubuntu tweaks which I also could not get to work.

I can connect via wifi without a problem, but the transferring of large files takes for ever.

Use an address on the same subnet as the machine you're trying to connect to.
That is, if your desktop gets an address of 192.168.1.100, then pick an address starting with 192.168.1
For this example I'll assume you want to use 192.168.1.102

The command (as root)

ifconfig usb0 address 192.168.1.102

will set the address of the usb adapter.

Thanks Tim,

ifconfig usb0 192.168.0.123 works. I can ping that IP address with great success, but I'm having trouble mounting it.

I'm getting



Probably something simple with the command.

The main problem is that since 192.168.0.134 is a machine name, not a folder, it needs two initial slashes, not just one
mount -t cifs //192.168.0.134/media -o username=playbook,password=xxxxxxxx,rw /mnt/playbook

Tim, I tried the double slashes and also received some errors. Not at the computer right, but give it another go and pot back

Error:



or

Is the share name listed in the smb.conf file actually media ?
The error message indicates it's not.

No it is not. The IP address changes each time I connect the Playbook to the USB port.

I did add 169.254.0. to the "hosts allowed" line in the /etc/samba/smb.conf to see if that makes a difference.

Everything I've read on the mounting of the share seems to be the way I have the command set up. Must be something very simple that I'm missing.

OK. Was to get the Playbook to mount. What I don't understand is why the IP that is used, is used?

In the example that is used in the "how to" the IP address shows as follows:



He then makes the following statement:



So, back to mine. I connected the Playbook and when I did a ifconfig -a I received the following:



I was able to ping 169.254.110.38 without a problem. I then tried to mount the share with



once a gain and once a gain I received the "host is down". I then tried the Bcast IP address(169.254.110.39) and received the error "Network is unreachable".

Going back to the instructions, I decided to go one IP address lower as he did (which is not seen anywhere in konsole), using 169.254.110.37 and the share mounted just fine.

Copy the files is much faster than over the wifi. If anyone can explain to me why using the lower IP address works, it would be much appreciated.

Just need to try and get it load on plug in now.

could this be achieved from >> system settings >> removable devices, under device overrides, then check the entry under automount on attach.