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Operating Systems BSD Connecting a samsung galaxy siii to freebsd Post 302721435 by DGPickett on Thursday 25th of October 2012 11:41:20 AM

10-25-2012

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The mtab is usually /etc/mtab. The device is a c character not a b raw device. If there is no parallel raw device, it may be that the USB is being mounted raw as a character device, not through a driver for a flash memory on USB. Make a listing of the *tab files, df and /dev with the phone and with a pen drive (which probably mounts just fine).

Many users of this and similar devices on *NIX say it is easier to connect over the air to a server you establish on the phone: ftp, ssh, samba! I suppose you could mount an sftp service as a drive with the right tools. Some windows articles talk about MTP drivers, mtpfs, gMTP, libmtp: http://libmtp.sourceforge.net/

One says you need an OTG cable, not the micro usb cable used for charging and sync (2 different USB ports on the phone?)

Another suggested this S2 procedure:

Try the following. This was tested on Galaxy SII, i am assuming it will work for SIII as well

go to Menu -> Settings -> Wireless and network -> USB utilities
Click on Connect Storage to PC
Connect the USB cable to your pc.
Click on Connect USB storage
Use your file manager to install/copy/paste.
Once finished, click on Disconnect storage from PC to disconnect and unmount drive from Ubuntu.

Reference: http://www.tuxtrix.com/2011/07/how-to-access-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-usb.html

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=34957

http://askubuntu.com/questions/16951...g-ubuntu-12-04

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=32933

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freebsd-version

FREEBSD-VERSION(1)					    BSD General Commands Manual 					FREEBSD-VERSION(1)

NAME

     freebsd-version -- print the version and patch level of the installed system

SYNOPSIS

     freebsd-version [-ku]

DESCRIPTION

     The freebsd-version utility makes a best effort to determine the version and patch level of the installed kernel and / or userland.

     The following options are available:

     -k 	 Print the version and patch level of the installed kernel.  Unlike uname(1), if a new kernel has been installed but the system
		 has not yet rebooted, freebsd-version will print the version and patch level of the new kernel.

     -u 	 Print the version and patch level of the installed userland.  These are hardcoded into freebsd-version during the build.

     If both -k and -u are specified, freebsd-version will print the kernel version first, then the userland version, on separate lines.  If nei-
     ther is specified, it will print the userland version only.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTES

     The freebsd-version utility should provide the correct answer in the vast majority of cases, including on systems kept up-to-date using
     freebsd-update(8), which does not update the kernel version unless the kernel itself was affected by the latest patch.

     To determine the name (and hence the location) of a custom kernel, the freebsd-version utility will attempt to parse
     /boot/defaults/loader.conf and /boot/loader.conf, looking for definitions of the kernel and bootfile variables, both with a default value of
     ``kernel''.  It may however fail to locate the correct kernel if either or both of these variables are defined in a non-standard location,
     such as in /boot/loader.rc.

ENVIRONMENT

     ROOT  Path to the root of the filesystem in which to look for loader.conf and the kernel.

EXAMPLES

     To determine the version of the currently running userland:

	   /bin/freebsd-version -u

     To inspect a system being repaired using a live CD:

	   mount -rt ufs /dev/ada0p2 /mnt
	   env ROOT=/mnt /mnt/bin/freebsd-version -ku

SEE ALSO

     uname(1), loader.conf(5), freebsd-version(8)

HISTORY

     The freebsd-version command appeared in FreeBSD 10.0.

AUTHORS

     The freebsd-version utility and this manual page were written by Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@FreeBSD.org>.

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