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Chapter 11, Hardware

#97 Use an iPod with Linux

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This means that you should encode MP3 files from an album all

together, or else you will lose the album track-numbering information. It

also means that you can use convenient filenames (such as track07.mp3)

instead of naming the files with the actual track names (e.g., 07. Voodoo

Chile [Slight Return].mp3); the shell metacharacters present in the latter

make them a pain to work with.

Setting Up Your Linux Desktop

Assuming you’re using a PCMCIA FireWire card, once the card is inserted,

the

cardmgr daemon should take care of loading the ieee1394 and ohci1394

modules. If you have a PCI card, these should be loaded by system startup

(

/etc/rc.local).

When you attach the iPod to the FireWire interface, the

sbp2 module is

loaded automatically. (If it’s not, load it with

modprobe.) You should see

messages appear in

dmesg indicating that the device is recognized. Addi-

tionally,

/proc/bus/ieee1394/devices contains information on each device,

including the string

[Apple Computer, Inc.] for the iPod:

ieee1394: Host added: Node[00:1023] GUID[00d0f5cd4008049d] [Linux OHCI-

1394]

ieee1394: Device added: Node[00:1023] GUID[000a2700020e545e] [Apple

Computer, Inc.]

ieee1394: Node 00:1023 changed to 01:1023

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00

ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device

ieee1394: sbp2: Node[00:1023]: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]

scsi0 : IEEE-1394 SBP-2 ...