FC5 iPod Nano

[kagenotatsu]

I just bought an iPod nano (green 2G if that makes a difference) today, and FC5 won't automount it.

I can do a mount /dev/sda2 /wherever/the/heck but HAL isn't doing its thing.

Oddly, when I plug it in, an Apple iPod Player, or something along those lines briefly appears in nautilus under computer:/// then disappears almost instantly.

Has anyone had similar issues?

Has anyone tried a nano with FC6? (Which I've downloaded but have not had time to install on here yet.)

If it works fine with FC6 I'll just wait until this weekend when I have time to backup and install.

[kagenotatsu]

I've gotten the iPod to automount, and it sounds like it is something Apple's new firmware (1.0.2) broke with Linux iPod compatibility .

Adding the following to my /etc/fstab (after mkdir /media/fstab):
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Apple_iPod_XXXXXXXXX-part2 /media/ipod vfat umask=000,uid=0,gid=0,noauto,rw,user 0 0

Makes it automount, kind of (if I click "ipod" under computer:///) but I still haven't had any luck getting music onto it.

Though, it does make a quite large flash drive now... *sigh*.

[jstoddard]

As for getting music on there, for iPod to recognize the music it has to be put into a specific directory and logged into an internal database. Thus you'll need to use gtkpod or banshee with the right plugins to get that to work.

I actually installed some non-apple firmware called Rockbox onto my iPod mini, and I can just copy music onto the iPod and play it as is. It supports ogg and is generally really nifty if you're bold enough to mess around with your firmware -- though in your case I wouldn't because I don't know if it yet supports the new nanos or not...

[kagenotatsu]

Sorry, I should have mentioned, neither gtkpod nor banshee would detect that my ipod was attached after I had it mounted at /media/ipod with fstab, or by doing a "mount /dev/sda2 /media/ipod" without the entry in /etc/fstab removed.

I've searched the web preeeetty heavily, and only come up with that fstab entry.

"# Apple: iPod 4th gen (grayscale and color), 5th gen (Video), 1st gen Nano and Mini 1st/2nd gen (Nano 2nd gen and Video 5.5th gen are not supported) " -Rockbox.org

Again, I think this is the firmware update that makes linux not work with it.

iPodlinux is not compatable with it either though, which makes me suspect its the firmware.

I have an old win2k install disc floating around here somewhere, I might go dual boot for a while, since I need to upgrade to FC6 anyways.