Shiny new iPod

Received a third-gen iPod nano on Monday as a thank-you for some work that I've been doing (at work), and just finally got the thing working!

These third-gen buggers require that the iTunesDB be signed with the device's serial number.

First I had to find the serial number by doing a "find" on "/proc" and grepping for "usb". The device came up, and I simply "cat"-ed the file to get the serial number.

Then, I used gnupod to sign my DB, using the command:

mktunes.pl -m /media/IPOD/ --fwguid=$(cat ~/ipod.serial )

Presto-- songs! No need to iTunes (well.. I don't run windows or OSX), but I just need to figure out how to get video and calendars onto this, and I'm set-- woohoo!