Can't mount my iPhone - Maybe it need not be mounted?

[eculp]

Quoting Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl>:

> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 11:10:48AM -0500, eculp wrote:
>> I've not been successful at googling a way to connect freebsd current
>> amd64 to my iPhone.  Eventually, I would like to be able to sync and
>> upload to it from an opensource substitute for iTunes, that doesn't
>> have a version from FreeBSD.
>>
>> When I connect my iPhone I see:
>>
>> Jun  1 09:55:00 ed kernel: uhid0: <Apple Inc. iPhone, class 0/0, rev
>> 2.00/0.01, addr 2> on uhub3
>>
>> in messages and that is it.  No new device or anything that I can find.
>>
>> Any programs or suggestions that you have to facilitate using the
>> iPhone will be greatly appreciated. I've been trying to use gtkpod
>> without success because I can't mount it, I assume.
>
> The pags for libgpod (http://www.gtkpod.org/libgpod.html), on which
> gtkpod depends, says:
>
>     "There's also preliminary support for the iPhone and the iPod Touch
>      but they must be jailbroken to work."
>
> Whatever that means. :-)

Here we call it "un blocked" which I assume is synonymous with  
"jailbroken" but I can't seem to get FreeBSD to recognize it as  
mountable so gtkpod doesn't see it either.

Thanks for your help,

ed
>
> Roland
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