<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>On Wed, 2019-03-27 at 08:06 +0530, Piyush Aggarwal wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 27, 2019, 4:17 AM Jonathan Ryshpan <<a href="mailto:jonrysh@pacbell.net">jonrysh@pacbell.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><div>I have not been able to connect my Android cell phone to Fedora Linux. </div><div><br></div><div>I can access the device from the Dolphin browser: when I connect the phone using USB, a message appears on the device notifier informing me</div><div style="margin-left:3ch"><div>LGE Android Phone</div><div style="margin-left:3ch"><div>Open with File Manager</div><div>Open with File Manager</div><div>Download Photos with Gwenview</div></div></div><div>"Open with File Manager" causes a message to appear on the phone </div><div style="margin-left:3ch"><div>USB Connection</div><div>Allow this computer to access your phone data</div><div> CANCEL ALLOW</div></div><div>When I tap allow, an instance of the Dolphin browser appears headed by </div><div style="margin-left:3ch"><div>mtp: > VS985 4G > Internal Storage</div><div><below this is the contents of this folder></div></div><div>The folder contains lots of sub-folders but does not appear to be part of my computer's file system.</div><div><br></div><div>So ... The phone's memory is accessible from Linux.</div><div><br></div><div>However, when I start KDE Connect on the phone, it reports:</div><div style="margin-left:3ch"><div>It looks like you are on a mobile data connection</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">It looks like you're not connected to a WiFi network on your mobile phone. KDE Connect needs your devices on a common local network (for eg: your PC and phone connected to the same router in your house) to work.</div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><div style="margin-left:3ch"><div>KDE Connect works only on local networks</div></div><div>My attempts to get a connection by going to the Custom device list and adding candidate names for the computer like</div><div style="margin-left:3ch"><div>localhost</div><div>192.168.1.65</div></div><div>have not been successful.</div><div><br></div><div>Here is the system info:</div><div style="margin-left:3ch"><div>Fedora Linux version: 29</div><div>KDE Framework version: 5.55.0</div><div>KDE Connect version: 1.3.1-1</div><div>Phone name: VS985 4G LTE (LG Android)</div></div><div><br></div><div>How can I connect the phone to the computer?</div><div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">You should try again, first checking that both your devices are connected to the same local network ( for eg: router)</div><div dir="auto">Best regards</div><div dir="auto">Piyush Aggarwal</div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://Piyush.tech">https://Piyush.tech</a></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</blockquote><div><br></div><div>The phone is not connected to a router but directly to the computer via one of the computer's USB ports. I have no idea how to connect the phone to anything else using a USB link. Sorry not to make this clear. </div><div><br></div><div>The (very small) topology of the network is shown in the following diagram: <i><b>Gateway</b></i> contains the name server; <b><i>Trend</i></b> provides wireless services (the "hot spot"); the dashed line shows the wireless connection between the cell phone and the <b><i>Gateway</i></b>; the solid line shows the USB connection between the phone and <b><i>Amito</i></b>, the computer in question. <b><i>Gateway</i></b>, the nameserver is aware of <b><i>Amito</i></b> but not of the cell phone; the cell phone is aware that it is on my home network.</div><div><br></div><div>I fear there may be a problem with a firewall built into <b><i>Trend</i></b>; I suppose the firewall could be changed, but I'd rather not. Is there any way to make KDE-Connect work over a direct USB link?</div><div><br></div><div style="text-align: center"><img src="cid:23df6c7ee0fac63f40310cd30d3ab096381aaef6.camel@pacbell.net"> <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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