I will investigate different versions of Slacko in the next day or so.

In the meantime, which iPod you have - iPod Classic, Shuffle, Mini, Nano, or Touch?

P.S. Please don't quote my entire post when replying. It's an unnecessary waste of forum space.

Hello kuman11. It would be good to know exactly which iPod you have, please - iPod Classic, Shuffle, Mini, Nano, or Touch? Also can you confirm that you are running Slacko 5.7? I just launched my (rarely used) Slacko 5.7 installation now, and checked that gtkpod is installed. Yep. It launches, and t...

Great. Commendable.
Meanwhile, this information has invoked stunned silence from the OP.

Yes you can sync iPod music in Puppy, for all iPod models except those made after 2011 - which means the Nano 7th gen and iPod-Touch 5th gen are no-go. You need gtkpod - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94022 The installation package(s) I provided at that link are compatible with old...

As I look back through this forum thread, I see that in December 2015 forum member Packetteer reported that gtkpod works with his iPod Touch gen1, running iOS 3.1.3. so that looks good for mike001's situation. And I see that in July 2015 forum member sindi wrote this - gtkpod launches for me but doe...

It's looking like usbmuxd is interacting imperfectly with your iPod Touch. This would suggest that an upgraded usbmuxd might help ... but I just checked now, and I see that the very latest usbmuxd v1.1.0 is included in my gtkpod package. In the process of checking this, I also discovered that my &qu...

OK, so it's not a FUSE/ifuse configuration issue. Suspicion must now fall on usbmuxd, and Google tells me this might be a solution -
use Geany to open /lib/udev/rules.d/39-usbmuxd.rules
and change: OWNER="usbmux" to OWNER="usbmuxd"
Save.
Reboot.
Try again.

Yes, that was a good idea to try Precise 5.7.1 / Tahrpup 6, since gtkpod is tried and tested under those environments. this time it is having trouble at ifuse /mnt/ipod and telling me that the location is invalid. The directory /mnt/ipod is created when gtkpod-2.0.2-APRIL2015.pet is installed, so I'...

Mmm, I just did a clean boot to the TahrPupu 6.0.5 CD, then downloaded fuse-conf-0.1.pet, and it installed just fine. It makes me wonder about the health of your Puppy installation ... I don't suppose you're running as user "spot" by chance?? Or maybe you're downloading under Windows or Ma...

Yes, a "first gen ipod" is a whole different animal to an iPod Touch 1st gen. when I initially hook up my ipod it does not show up on the desktop like other usb devices, nor does it show up if I open the "mount" icon on the desktop That's the correct behaviour for an iPhone, iPad...

Oops, I just realised you might not understand <device node> <mountpoint> When you plug your iPod into a USB port, an icon should appear on the Puppy desktop indicating its mountpoint. Sometimes there might be more than one, if so, the last mountpoint is usually the one that contains the music files...

when I run the 'ifuse /mnt/ipod' it says it cant find the device Whoa, you shouldn't be using the "ifuse" command for a conventional iPod - you're following the wrong section of instructions. For iPods, the relevant posts are: post 2. preparation post 3. INSTRUCTIONS for "conventiona...

when I run [ipod-read-sysinfo-extended YOUR_UUID /mnt/ipod] it tells me ipod-read-sysinfo-extended is a command not found. Well the gtkpod dotpet (gtkpod-2.0.2-APRIL2015.pet) definitely contains that utility, so if your Precise installation cannot find it, then the dotpet is not installed properly....

You're welcome.

Yes, the forum member who successfully tested the dmraid application was CindyJ in 2011. I mentioned that in the "RAID arrays in (Puppy) Linux" thread. Well I don't have a copy of the dmraid dotpet on my old hard drives, so well done Puppy administrators, that's another resource lost forev...

The information you need is here - http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=483667 "RAID arrays in (Puppy) Linux" The part which is relevant to you is the second post, "2. HOST RAID" Unfortunately the necessary "dmraid" software I provided in the form of a dotpe...

Compatibility, or otherwise, of the drivers posted in this forum thread can be seen from the title of the thread, but for a clearer explanation, please read the very first sentence in the very first post -
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 984#443984

Backporting a modern kernel module (driver) requires specialised coding - way beyond my skill level. Yes, it's feasible to "transplant" a more modern kernel into Puppy 2.14, but you probably want the kernel to be not TOO new, since I understand that Puppy 2 uses an older method of hard dri...

Pressing 'fn' key and 'f12' (has pic of antenna and light on it) didn't get the desired result. It just caused the Puppy menu to pop up. Groan. Nothing's easy. For reference, I was involved with early hotkey support for Puppy in 2008 via the acpid utility, specifically for Asus Eee's at that time. ...

is there something that I have missed? You didn't mention whether you followed the advice in that gentoo forum link about cycling your hardware wireless switch. Here's what I suggest you try - 1. boot up to Tahrpup (6.0.5) 2. rfkill list to check that phy0/wlan is displayed, but not hci0. 3. toggle...