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Sunday, October 9, 2011

Charge iPad or iPad2 over usb in Linux

First, follow these instructions:

http://korenkov.info/ipad-ipad2-charge-ubuntu

For later versions of udev (I tested this on Ubuntu 11.04), make sure that /etc/udev/rules.d/95-ipad_charge.rules looks like the following examples.

For iPad:

ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="05ac", ATTRS{idProduct}=="129a", RUN+="/usr/bin/ipad_charge"

For iPad2:

ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="05ac", ATTRS{idProduct}=="129f", RUN+="/usr/bin/ipad_charge"

Then restart udev or reboot.