Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Attaching iRiver to Linux

After trying nearly several hours to attach my iRiver T20 to my Linux operating system, I just kept getting errors. Anyways, firstly I tried to simply mount it as an USB device. No luck. Then I found an article which tells the story: there are two types of iRivers - the ones, which use firmware and the ones which do not. Okay then, maybe mine does.
Downloaded ifp manager
(archLinux tutorial, check for other operating systems in search engines). Also downloaded usbview. It tells me that my USB is in /proc/usb/devices and can perfectly be found. Okay, so I run:
# ifp ls
iRiver iFP device not found.
Note: Please check USB connection.
#
Checked everything and still could not solve that.
Then, browsing in one forum, found the message, dated to December, 2005:
I have the same problem as mentioned earlier about the iRiver T30 on ubuntu. After reading through some threads on the misticriver-forum, I found out that the US and European version can't be used on linux because it's firmware is based on mtp (microsoft "secure" firmware) which ties it as mentioned in an earlier post, to windows media player. Further more iRiver isn't planning to release any ums-firm/software for the t-models, so all in all it seems that we just have to wait and see what iRiver does or someone manages to find a workaround.

Okay then, so I am short of ideas. Damn...

51 comments:

Anonymous said...

hey if you happen to know a way to circumvent that, please let me know.. I hate these proprietary technologies. came across your blog googling for ifp drivers and ubuntu does have drivers, but the gnome app seems to crash! and havent dug deep to see what you quoted ::sigh::

Anonymous said...

update: sorry my wrong.. my ifp 190 tc bought in US seems to work with ifp-line (and not with ifp-gnome!), though gives some troubles, had to d/c and connect several times and segmentation faults are common but it works. my o/s: ubuntu

Anonymous said...

Why it is not possible to upgrade the T20 firmware to UMS (Usb Mass Storage)? As far as I can see here:
http://nyaochi.sakura.ne.jp/iriverupdate/
there are UMS firmware for T20. Did you try?

E.

lyzazel said...

Well, I didn't really find (i wasn't searching a lot, though) how to upgrade it. Now as you give me this link, gotta try sometime.
Thanks.

Anonymous said...

Did you every get around to trying it? If so how did it go? I'm tempted to copy the new HEX file to my T20 and just reboot it. Hopefully when it comes up again the HEX file will be seen and the upgrade will begin... I'm just worried that I may brick it.

lyzazel said...

No, unfortunately I didn't.
I just had to keep using Windows to do the task.

Anonymous said...

I visited the european iriver support web site and found the "Switch MTP <-> UMS"
T30 v1.71 firware updater.. use it to switch it to UMS and now you will be able to access it.

cheers

Anonymous said...

opps here is the web link for the Switch MTP <-> UMS software.

http://www.iriver.eu/mtp.html?&L=0&PHPSESSID=f5108b55473a526f670f0fbe93e245c5

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