Re: [Banshee-List] Connecting Motorola SLVR - Banshee

[Aaron Bockover <abockover novell com>]

Currently libipoddevice/ipod-sharp does not support the SLVR at all. I
began working on SLVR support in April but haven't had any time to
finish it. The SLVR does a few fundamentally different things than other
iPods, so it's not as straight forward as just adding a new entry to the
model table.

I'll evaluate continuing work in libipoddevice next week (shouldn't take
much more time to finish), but SLVR support will not be ported back to
released-versions of libipoddevice/ipod-sharp/Banshee (i.e. no native
support for it on SUSE 10.1). You'd have to get all components from
source from HEAD.

--Aaron


On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 18:16 -0400, Michael Hieb wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am trying to connect a motorola SLVR phone (itunes + mobile) to
> banshee to manage the music on the phone. I am running Suse 10.1 (Linux
> cipher 2.6.16.13-4-smp #1 SMP Wed May 3 04:53:23 UTC 2006 i686 i686 i386
> GNU/Linux) and banshee 0.10.9.6338. The phone isn't recognized by
> banshee (as an ipod or otherwise).
> 
> The phone mounts fine and looks like this:
> michael cipher:~> ls -la /media/slvr/
> total 48
> drwxr-xr-x  4 michael root 16384 1969-12-31 19:00 .
> drwxr-xr-x  7 root    root   176 2006-06-06 17:38 ..
> drwxr-xr-x  3 michael root 16384 2005-07-01 16:00 iTunes
> drwxr-xr-x 17 michael root 16384 1999-12-31 23:08 mobile
> michael cipher:~> ls -lRa /media/slvr/iTunes/
> /media/slvr/iTunes/:
> total 48
> drwxr-xr-x 3 michael root 16384 2005-07-01 16:00 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 michael root 16384 1969-12-31 19:00 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 3 michael root 16384 2005-07-01 16:00 iTunes_Control
> 
> /media/slvr/iTunes/iTunes_Control:
> total 48
> drwxr-xr-x 3 michael root 16384 2005-07-01 16:00 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 michael root 16384 2005-07-01 16:00 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 michael root 16384 2005-07-01 16:00 iTunes
> 
> /media/slvr/iTunes/iTunes_Control/iTunes:
> total 48
> drwxr-xr-x 2 michael root 16384 2005-07-01 16:00 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 michael root 16384 2005-07-01 16:00 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 michael root     8 2006-06-06 11:30 Settings
> michael cipher:~>
> 
> I can see the following under hal-device-manager:
> 
> + 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2)
> 	+ UHCI Host Controller
> 		+ USB Hub Interface
> 		+ USB Raw Device Access
> 	+ E398 Storage
> 		+ USB Mass Storage Interface
> 			+ SCSI Host Adaptor
> 				+ SCSI Device
> 					+ Motorola Phone
> 						+ Volume (vfat)
> 					+ SCSI Generic Interface
> 		+ USB Raw Device Access
> 
> Gnome Volume Manager sees the device fine, i.e it appears in Nautilus etc..
> 
> Honestly I don't know where to go from here, though I am reasonably
> confident I can hack around if someone can give me a clue. When I get it
> working I'll post a summary for others who might buy the phone.
> Apologies if I missed it in the docs or archives.
> 
> Michael
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