5 Feb 2006 richdawe   » (Journeyer)

ipodfs

Sometime ago I bought an iPod Shuffle. Since I have no Windows or Mac OS X boxen at home, I was relieved to find that I could initialise and manage it using gtkpod. However, I found gtkpod really hard to use.

gtkpod's iPod handling is available in a library called libgpod. So using that and FUSE I built an ipod file system, ipodfs, to allow you to upload MP3s, etc. using Unix file utilities. E.g.:

ipodfs /some/mount/point
cp newalbum*.mp3 /some/mount/point

Current suckiness:

  • It assumes that your iPod is mounted automatically on /media/ipod.
  • I've only tested it with the iPod Shuffle.
  • It doesn't preserve any of the ID3 tags (or equivalent in other formats).
  • The file type guessing is based solely on file extension.

madwifi and wpa_supplicant

madwifi and wpa_supplicant are approaching the point where they "just work" for me on my x86_64 box. I can now use wifi for several hours without crashes or WPA dropping out. WPA-PSK negotiation seems to work reliably. This is a big change from a few months ago.

Admittedly, I still have to go through this after boot:

ifdown ath0
modprobe -r ath_pci
modprobe ath_pci
/etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant restart
ifup ath0

You may wish to try my Fedora Core 4 i386 or x86_64 rpms if you're having trouble.

Music

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