[ltp] hooking up an ipod

[Keith T. Garner]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 07:08:29, Rei Shinozuka said:
> i have a ibm t23 (with firewire) running fc2.  

Tell me you're on the latest fc2 kernel and have turned on fireware or
at least defined the device you'll need in /etc/modprobe.conf

Hint:
    alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394

> i have a mini ipod.
> 
> can they make music together?

I do it with a regular 3G iPod, so YMMV....
 
> i googled linux and ipod and there's a bunch of information but several
> competing methods, some of which involve using HFS+ on linux, or reformatting
> the disk in the ipod to FAT and so on, some of which looks pretty old,
> and others which warn you that the ipod gets stuck and how to reformat it
> when it does.  scary.

Someone else already said use the apple software/fireware upgrade on
window to upgrade to vfat.  That's the path of least resistance.
Although, I have gotten it working on HFS+, vfat is no effort.

> has there emerged by now--the summer of 2004--a consensus on the best
> way to make the linux machine one's host for the ipod?

No consensus, but I've documented what I did at:
   http://www.kgarner.com/blog/archives/2004/06/24/more-fc2/

It works really well for me.

Also, gtkpod was mentioned.  That's all I've ever used and I love it.

Keith

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 Keith T. Garner                                        kgarner@kgarner.com
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