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MTP - Oh how I love to hate you....

TL; DR:  I can't sync my android tablet (Nvidia Shield) with Fedora via MTP if I am using a USB Hub? So, in fairness... I don't actually *hate* MTP.  I'm sure it is probably fairly awesome at doing whatever it is that MTP should do.  I'm just miffed at the moment because Android switched (a long time ago, I might add) to MTP for USB connections. Before, I could (essentially) directly mount the SD card in my tablet/phone/toaster and manage it using my archaic methods.  Now.. I have to conform to using the mtp methodology... which is fine. However - now I am stuck.. Feb  3 10:15:18 neo mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 28 was not an MTP device Fun... Syslog tells me the device is:  /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2.3/1-1.2.3.3 At some point I will need to dig in to the output from... # udevadm test /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2.3/1-1.2.3.  Specifially... /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-defau...