Charging the iPad

[whoopn]

I am trying to charge the iPad on my Dell D630 running Ubuntu 10.04. And it wont!

Here is what I need to know how to do:
Set the USB port to deliver 1100mA or close to it. Normally USB ports deliver 500mA of power (which is not enough).

I seem to recall threads on these forums for USB power options but I cannot remember where the thread is or where those settings are in Ubuntu.

Could someone help me with this please? Asus, MSI, and Gigabyte released drivers for this last week and its claimed on the following website that you can use the Asus drivers on any windows computer, so naturally I wanted this to work in linux . You can get them here: http://dailyiphoneblog.com/2010/06/0...rger-software/

Any ideas would be great! Thanks!

[Olostan]

I've tried to use 'barry' sources (package that allows to charge blackberry devices, but failed.

As for now I do not see any other option, then use some VM with Windows and installed Asus iCharger tool to quick-charge iPad... no other solution for Ubuntu found.

[tariqf]

Hi I use a small program in ubuntu which allows you to enable ipad charging on any usb port. Works a treat on my ubuntu 11.04 test box. I have upped a 64-bit deb file to my wiki here http://www.yourproblemsolved.com/software with link to the original source also.

[miguelastico]

Hi I use a small program in ubuntu which allows you to enable ipad charging on any usb port. Works a treat on my ubuntu 11.04 test box. I have upped a 64-bit deb file to my wiki here http://www.yourproblemsolved.com/software with link to the original source also.

Thanks man, it works perfectly on my 10.10@64!

[ibo.ezhe]

I had the same problem. I found a fix here:
http://ubuntuguide.net/how-to-charge...-via-usb-ports

You should install this deb in case you have an 64-bit system: http://www.yourproblemsolved.com/sit..._amd64.deb.zip

In case of 32bit system, just follow these steps (found here):
http://korenkov.info/ipad-ipad2-charge-ubuntu

sudo apt-get install libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/downloads/mkorenkov/ipad_charge/ipad_charge_1.0.tar.gz
tar -xzf ipad_charge_1.0.tar.gz
cd ./ipad_charge_1.0
make
sudo make install

[generallee5686]

For ipad 2 edit /etc/udev/rules.d/95-ipad_charge.rules and change SYSFS{idProduct}=="129a" to SYSFS{idProduct}=="129f"

[ibo.ezhe]

Kibodeaux, have you tried my solution (posted earlier)?