If Banshee doesn’t detect your iPod anymore, it might be Banshee’s iPod detector:
Podsleuth is included in [extra] but doesn’t work anymore after the DeviceKits->UPower switch.

The following PKGBUILD compiles the new 0.6.7 version which fixes the iPod detection problems for Banshee.

Some weeks ago, the Linux4Nano project managed to break the IPod nano 2. Generation.
Thus, it’s now possible to run custom applications on the device.
Rockbox made a port (currently in development mode) which runs quite well.

To get it running, you’ll have to install a bootloader (from Rockbox or Linux4Nano) and Rockbox itself.
The following steps worked for me but due development state, there’s no guarantee for anyone!
If everything worked, nothing will break and all music will be available like before.

Ok? Ok!

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