ipod

[Richard Shaw]

peter lesterhuis wrote:
> Hi,
> I followed the thread about the useability of ipods with linux. I just 
> bought an ipod (nano 3rd gen, 4 Gb) for my daughter's birthday.
> When I connected the ipod to my box the filesystem of the hard disk 
> was not recognized. I  rebooted into WinXP, which configured the 
> filesystem into vfat. Back to fedora8 the ipod was being recognized: 
> an icon appeared on the desktop, the mountpoint seemed to be /media/IPOD.
> The problem is that I can't get gtkpod to load the ipod. When I start 
> gtkpod this message pops up:
> Error initialising iPod: Couldn't find the iPod firewire ID
> Newly mounted iPod at '/media/IPOD' could not be loaded into gtkpod.
> The ipod is connected via usb, not firewire. Included with the ipod 
> was only a cable with a usb-plug.
> How can I get gtkpod to work, using this connection?
> I tried amarok, but here the same problem.
> Peter
>
Others here might be able to give you more direct help but I would start 
by checking the bottom of /var/log/messages after connecting it to see 
if you find anything of interest.

Richard