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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-default.rules
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/69-libmtp.rules


Now... fortunately before I got too out of control trying to "fix" this... I tried plugging my tablet directly in to the machine... and everything was fine?
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.2




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