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This was originally posted on two linux forum websites, so excuse if the language is a bit Linux community oriented.
Howdy,
I installed FC3 on my machine a few months ago. I had no problem using my mouse or printer (once my machine recognized a plugged in printer and gave me a driver select menu), but I'm having serious troubles with everything else.
Its mainly my iPod. I can plug it in through usb, and of course the iPod will say 'Do Not Disconnect', but other than that, nothing happens. I've looked while its plugged in in the hardware browser, and under 'Hard Drives', it lists my main HD under /dev/hda, and then it lists an additional drive under /dev/sda, and for model it has listed 'Apple iPod,' so I think my machine recognizes it but does nothing else.
I installed FC3 from a disc from an issue of Linux User (Issue 45, if it matters). I've always had a few problems going on with it, since mine seems to be a handicapped copy due to the fact that it came from a promo disk, not home burned ISOs. I think the issue may lie in that I haven't run any of the update it tells me to install everytime I boot up. I've tried, but Up2Date just freezes up halfway through the process. I've installed single packages from Up2Date at a time no problem, but when I select more than about 30 at a time it locks up and wont go any further (and there are hundreds of updates it wants to get me).
If it matters, I've tried plugging a Digital Camera in (the only other USB device I have in this house) and nothing happens either.
I've been told that FC3 is supposed to automatically mount an iPod and display it on the desktop...
If someone could please help me out on this, I'd be much obliged. Please keep in mind im definitely a linux newb-I know how to get into the terminal and give commands, all that fun stuff, but if you belch out code at me like a lot of websites I've gone to have done, odds are my head will explode.
Thanks very much!
Update: Someone asked me if I'd tried just mounting /dev/sda, and I told them I had many times and always got the same message, which I then posted. Someone explained to me the message I got was due to a lack of information in the command line, and to run dmesg as soon as I plugged my iPod in. I did, and my dmesg was different from his in that right before it gave me the information I was to gain from it, it flipped out and gave me 2 logical blocks. So I tried just mounting to every partition I could, up to sda3, with mount /dev/sdaN /mnt/ipod (a folder I created earlier) which was unnecessary, and nothing. It said it couldn't read the things superblock, whatever that means.
