iPod Support in iTunes 4.0 Forum

Has anyone had the problem, where iTunes states "the software for comunicating with the ipod was not installed properly. To fix the problem please reinstall itunes"???

I've reinstalled iTunes a few times with no luck, any suggestions?

This generally means you have not installed dcom95 and have not done the registry fix.

Take a look at step 8 on Tips and Tricks.

where is step 8 on tips and tricks seems it does not exist?
I have this "warning..."

The tips and tricks have been rewritten since then,

The important thing is to install dcom95 using CrossOver Setup and make sure you have , as your user, run:

cxoffice/bin/cxipod --user

-aric

i reinstalled dcom95, set usb support and scsi device support up such that
plugging in my ipod i get:
usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8
scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 8
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.62
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sdb: 39063023 512-byte hdwr sectors (20000 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 64 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 39063023 512-byte hdwr sectors (20000 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 64 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1 sdb2
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi8, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi8, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
with cxoffice/bin/cxipod --ipod-setup , and cxoffice/bin/cxipod --mount
mounts ipod at /mnt/ipod:
df -h says:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 15G 4.3G 9.8G 31% /
tmpfs 442M 0 442M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb2 19G 24M 19G 1% /mnt/ipod
starting iTunes i still get subject "reinstall..." message, and ipod remains undetected. This is debian-unstable, kernel 2.6.1--rc3, scsi sda, dual cpu box.
-mel