The fact that I couldn’t plug my BlackBerry device into a USB port on my laptop running Linux and have it charge really bugged me, and a whole lot of other people. A few weeks ago, I discovered the Barry project, a small part of which is bCharge, which tells the BlackBerry to request the correct power setting on the USB port, avoiding the dreaded message about insufficient power for charging. The latest version adds support for the Pearl and 8800 devices.
I used the openSUSE Build Service to create RPMs for SLED 10 and openSUSE 10.2. They are in my home repository here.
I tried the Barry project with no luck.
The thing that worked for me made no sense whatsoever, but it works (Ubuntu 8.04 and 9.04) and I’m not questioning it:
sudo apt-get libwxgtk-2.8.0
Hope it works for you too!
Good luck!
You need ‘bcharge’ from the Barry project. It’s found in barry-util package for Ubuntu.
I agree with sigger. For Ubuntu 9.04, Installing libwxgtk2.8-dbg worked. It’s a Windows cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit. I don’t know which component interfaces with the usb drivers, but it is good thing.