For whatever reason, iPhone 5 devices (and maybe more)
are not automatically mounted like they were for me in
Fedora 16.
After much research, I did the following to mount an iPhone 5 manually.
# yum install libimobiledevice
# idevicepair unpair&& idevicepair pair
dmesg then had something like this in it
usb 3-2.4: new high-speed USB device number 85 using xhci_hcd
[ 559.894437] usb 3-2.4: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=12a0
[ 559.894456] usb 3-2.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 559.894458] usb 3-2.4: Product: iPhone
[ 559.894460] usb 3-2.4: Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
[ 559.894461] usb 3-2.4: SerialNumber: a10733b8ceb1656487ee7cdf532caad722243961
[ 559.895236] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x2 - rounding interval to 8 microframes, ep desc says 10
microframes
[ 559.895243] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 8 microframes, ep desc says 10
microframes
[ 559.904425] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x2 - rounding interval to 8 microframes, ep desc says 10
microframes
[ 559.904442] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x81 - rounding interval to 8 microframes, ep desc says 10
microframes
[ 559.904447] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x4 - rounding interval to 32768 microframes, ep desc says 0
microframes
[ 559.904449] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x85 - rounding interval to 32768 microframes, ep desc says 0
microframes
[ 560.737351] ipheth 3-2.4:4.2: Apple iPhone USB Ethernet device attached
[ 560.737398] usbcore: registered new interface driver ipheth
[ 560.753345] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x86 - rounding interval to 32768 microframes, ep desc says 0
microframes
[ 560.753353] usb 3-2.4: ep 0x5 - rounding interval to 32768 microframes, ep desc says 0
microframes
I then mounted the device using ifuse as follows.
$ mkdir iphone
$ ifuse -ua10733b8ceb1656487ee7cdf532caad722243961 ./iphone
$ cd iphone
$ ls
AirFair Books Downloads iTunes_Control
PhotoStreamsData Safari
Airlock com.apple.itunes.lock_sync HighlandPark PhotoData Purchases
ApplicationArchives DCIM iPod_Control Photos Recordings
I could then access the iPhone mountpoint in Dolphin or from the command line session as I
desired.
I hope this helps someone.
I hope this procedure becomes unnecessary in Fedora 18 and iPhone 5s are mounted
automatically.
References
http://engineerwithoutacause.com/rhythmbox-does-not-recognize-iphone-4-io...
man ifuse