i know i'm not the first to try using an ipod/firewire drive on the 2.6.x kernel, i've searched extensively and people are tending to have the same problem. i've got the problem, as you may have guessed, and i've been doing everything i can to try to figure it out. i decided to try my ipod in a new fedora core installation today, i plug it in, look at the ipod, look at the screen, look back at the ipod....and no dice. i was hoping for some sort of signal from linux that the ipod was connected, nothing. and the ipod acted like linux wasn't even there, like it was just plugged into a wall and charging. i've got gnupod installed but not gtkpod (i would like to have gtkpod, but that's another problem all togehter). so, i do a google for "mount ipod in linux" and there are loads of places that tell you how to do it in 2.4, but they keep saying firewire should work just peachy in 2.6. i've got no clue as to how to mount an ipod via firewire in fedora core 2 (with kernel 2.6.5). any help would be greatly appreciated

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not gonna let this get off the front page. i've been working on this for too long to just let a thread for help on it die.

Fedora Core 2 has no firewire support in the kernel, due to immense bugs and deadlines.

You can either compile yourself a kernel including support and run it in FC2 (I did this for another problem, it aint that hard), or you can get a different distro

thanks very much for the help

how might i go about recompiling the kernel in Fedora 2?

...anyone?

Get the new kernel 2.6.6 rpm's from up2date, they have firewire support included

then get the latest version of rhythmbox, which has ipod support.

honestly ipods are bad news all around to start with. i hate when items, more so for that much money, are made to be 'disposable' i havnt found many people who where impressed or happy with an ipod. i was thinking about one but i decided not to. one reason was the lack of a changable battery, and that i could find no linux support. i have alos heard windows support is fairly terrible.

anyways some things you may have to let go of. however maybe try useing USB, if the Ipod even supports USB

...obviously you don't know much about the ipod. and it looks like the last time you heard anything about it was a year and a half ago. the battery problems have been fixed, and the battery is replaceable, very replaceable. i can't understand why you would use the word "disposable", it's an iron-clad mp3 player, it's made to last a while. there is linux support, gnupod, gtkpod, and many other applications support the ipod on unix-like platforms. it's windows support used to be awful, but that's all changed with the introduction of itunes for windows, which automaticly syncs your ipod with your itunes library, in just a few seconds, and i haven't had a problem with it yet.

thanks for the help from everyone else. i just upgraded to the 2.6.6 kernel like one of you suggested, i'm going to try rhythmbox now

ok, tried rhythmbox, and when i click on "ipod" in the menu to the left, nothing happens...

Okay:

First you connect the ipod with firewire then you restart and when u boot up it should say ipod has been found configure? and you say yes

then i dont no if it mounts it or not if not edit /etc/fstab with:

/dev/sda2 /mnt/ipod vfat defaults

then type

mkdir /mnt/ipod

then type:

mount /mnt/ipod

that should do it then

cd /mnt/ipod and ur all set



-Mike

i plugged it in, then restarted. watched everything fly by, then it comes up to "checking for new hardware", and there was none. it didn't ask me to configure anything, it just went through normal bootup, while i'm looking right at the ipod plugged into the firewire cord. thanks for trying to help though

i really wanna know if somebody with fedora core 2 has successfuly set up an ipod before, i know somebody has tried, i mean, i can't be the only one.

Even if it didnt say configure then try the next steps any way if you cannot mount /dev/sda2 then I dont no I think a while back i found a script that you can run that searches and finds ipod just search google for Ipod on linux

Not in fedora core 2, but I have gotten it to work in fedora core 1...It auto mounted at /mnt/ipod, but that was with usb, so I don't know how much help that is to you...

Good luck!

Dude, I dunno if you figured out how to make it work yet but anyways, did you put the ipod in the dock or did you connect it using just the firewire?