How to mount Walkman?

[DERG]

I can play DVDs but the Walkman isn't recognized by USB. Not sure how to determine what's missing.
Any advice?

[Telengard]

Re: How to mount Walkman?

TBH I wasn't aware that Sony ever used the Walkman brand on anything but cassette players.

1. Is the Walkman powered on?
2. Is one end of the USB cable plugged into the Walkman?
3. What happens when you plug the USB cable into the computer's USB port?
4. What do you expect to happen when you plug the USB cable in?
5. Did you try plugging the USB cable into a different USB port on the computer?

I am not aware of any special requirements for this device. AFAIK it should be treated as USB storage. If this assumption is wrong, someone please correct.

[DERG]

Re: How to mount Walkman?

Anyone?

[claydoh]

Re: How to mount Walkman?

again, more info, such as type/model of walkman it is. That might make it easier to track down linux -related info on this

it could be that the sony is not being seen as a removable device (MSC mode for some media players), and my only support MTP, or it might not even have linux support at all if it is a mini-disk player

[GreyGeek]

Re: How to mount Walkman?

Googled it and found a couple interesting responses:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=206470

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-716477.html

[Telengard]

Re: How to mount Walkman?

Anyone?

What am I, chopped liver?

[DERG]

Re: How to mount Walkman?

Googled it and found a couple interesting responses:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=206470

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-716477.html

Thanks. These might be helpful if USB recognizes the device in some way. It doesn't. It says No Device Connected & that's all. I'm dual booting & use this same USB port to connect while in WinXP. This same port reads my SCHD photo card okay in Kubuntu.
These are normally plug & play but in my case USB port doesn't recognize the device is present. I realize Sony doesn't write software that is compatible with Linux or even Mac but USB should at least recognize that a device is present. And that is the issue.
I did find this - http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3096598 which addresses the issue. Maybe I can at least get Kubuntu to recognize the device.

[DERG]

Re: How to mount Walkman?

again, more info, such as type/model of walkman it is. That might make it easier to track down linux -related info on this

it could be that the sony is not being seen as a removable device (MSC mode for some media players), and my only support MTP, or it might not even have linux support at all if it is a mini-disk player

It's a Sony NWZ-A816 and they call these Digital Media Players nowadays. This post http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3096598 seems to be address the issue. I have finished this tutorial to a point but sent a PM because I'm running 64bit & produced different file names, etc. Enough to place some doubts. He was using a similar Walkman & running Kubuntu, too. But, in two years lots could have changed in Kubuntu so who knows?

[GreyGeek]

Re: How to mount Walkman?

It's a Sony NWZ-A816 and they call these Digital Media Players nowadays. This post http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3096598 seems to be address the issue. I have finished this tutorial to a point but sent a PM because I'm running 64bit & produced different file names, etc.

Running a 64bit OS and trying to use an app which might (?) have been developed for a 32 bit OS usually requires that the source be recompiled and that lib32*.so libraries be installed that allow the 64bit OS to set up a 32 bit application environment. This was a bigger problem with Jaunty and Karmic that it appears to be with Lucid. Out of 15 lib32*.* libraries in the 64bit Lucid repository I have only four installed and so far I've had no problems running any 32 bit program. Usually, when you install a 32 bit program, the dependencies check will co-install those 32 bit libraries that are needed automatically. But, when you compile a program the "./configure" step usually tells you which dependencies are missing from your installation and need to be installed first.

[DERG]

Re: How to mount Walkman?

It recognizes my USB SDHC photo card reader & reads & writes to it. I have an external 300Gb HDD that is NTFS for WinXP (32bit Home Edition) that can be plugged into the same USB port. Reads & writes to that, too. It would seem that it would at lease recognize the Walkman as a HDD.
Using this tutorial - http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3096598 - I get to this point to create & install these debs-

libhal1_0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu8.2_i386.deb
hal_0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu8.2_i386.deb
libhal-storage1_0.5.11~rc2-1ubuntu8.2_i386.deb

...but find they are written differently in 64bit...
libhal1_0.5.13-1ubuntu8.2_amd64.deb
hal_0.5.13-1ubuntu8_amd64.deb
libhal-storage1_0.5.13-1ubuntu8_amd64.deb

I installed those 3 then ran into other issues further in the tutorial in the mtm section. Instead of creating & installing these debs -
libmtp7_0.2.6.1-2ubuntu1_i386.deb
mtp-tools_0.2.6.1-2ubuntu1_i386.deb

It created some for 64bit but it wasn't to hard to figure out the correct ones & install. But the killer was this -

Code:
nano /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libmtp7.rules

It calls for editing the 45-libmtp7.rules file. There wasn't a 45-libmtp7.rules file to add anything to. I improvised & wrote it myself. I restarted but none of this got the Walkman working. I'm not absolutely sure if I did everything correctly or not.

There is a post that said to type - ls -l /media in the terminal to see what USB ports are active. Mine listed the USB port & identified it as Bus 005 Device 008: ID 057c:0327 Sony Corp.. So, it knows something is there but it doesn't open in Dolphin nor does it show in the device manager.
Not sure what else to do!

[Snowhog]

Re: How to mount Walkman?

It created some for 64bit but it wasn't to hard to figure out the correct ones & install. But the killer was this -

Code:
nano /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libmtp7.rules

It calls for editing the 45-libmtp7.rules file. There wasn't a 45-libmtp7.rules file to add anything to. I improvised & wrote it myself.

Did you do this as your normal user, or as root? If the former, then the file is owned by you, but these files need to be owned by root. If that is the case, sudo chown root:root 45-libmtp7.rules will change the ownership to root. Then reboot and see what happens.

[skunk]

Re: How to mount Walkman?

There is a post that said to type - ls -l /media in the terminal to see what USB ports are active. Mine listed the USB port & identified it as Bus 005 Device 008: ID 057c:0327 Sony Corp.. So, it knows something is there but it doesn't open in Dolphin nor does it show in the device manager.
Not sure what else to do!

Does it appear in Amarok?
Do you get any useful output if you run

mtp-detect

from a bash shell?

[MoonRise]

Re: How to mount Walkman?

Anyone?

What am I, chopped liver?

I was wondering the same thing!

[DERG]

Re: How to mount Walkman?

It created some for 64bit but it wasn't to hard to figure out the correct ones & install. But the killer was this -

Code:
nano /etc/udev/rules.d/45-libmtp7.rules

It calls for editing the 45-libmtp7.rules file. There wasn't a 45-libmtp7.rules file to add anything to. I improvised & wrote it myself.

Did you do this as your normal user, or as root? If the former, then the file is owned by you, but these files need to be owned by root. If that is the case, sudo chown root:root 45-libmtp7.rules will change the ownership to root. Then reboot and see what happens.

I wrote it in root as 45-libmtp8.rules because libmtp8 is what was installed. Apparently libmtp7 was replaced by libmtp8. When I checked the file, root is the owner.

[DERG]

Re: How to mount Walkman?

There is a post that said to type - ls -l /media in the terminal to see what USB ports are active. Mine listed the USB port & identified it as Bus 005 Device 008: ID 057c:0327 Sony Corp.. So, it knows something is there but it doesn't open in Dolphin nor does it show in the device manager.
Not sure what else to do!

Does it appear in Amarok?
Do you get any useful output if you run

mtp-detect

from a bash shell?

Nothing for Walkman appears in Amarok. However, I plugged my wife's iPod & everything works like a charm including AAC or mp4 (Mac's codec).

Here's the mtp-detect results,
george@kubuntu-ross:~$ mtp-detect
libmtp version: 0.3.7

Listing raw device(s)
Found 1 device(s):
Sony: Walkman NWZ-A815/NWZ-A818 (054c:0325) @ bus 0, dev 7
Attempting to connect device(s)

Close but no cigar!