[email protected] (Martin Husemann) writes: >On Wed, Apr 01, 2026 at 11:11:36AM -0400, MLH wrote: >> I used to be able to plug in my Android phones and then mount them as usb >> devices and do all that way, but gradually, NetBSD updates keep dropping >> support for usb mounted devices to the point where now, nothing can be >> mounted >> via usb anymore with -current.
>Well, this is not in general that way - I just mounted a USB stick with >-current a few hours ago (and it just did work). Android phones lost the ability to act as USB mass storage devices a long time ago (with Android 4.0). Nowadays they only offer MTP (media transfer protocol). There are some apps that restore (some) umass functionality, but I fear they all require a rooted device. pkgsrc has devel/libmtp as a MTP client. Last time I looked at it, it wasn't very functional, but that might have changed. N.B. there is a MTP client for Gnome (gvfs-mtp) and a utility based on libmtp (jmtpfs) that might make things easier once ported.
