…it’s been so long since I recompiled the kernel.
After going swiftly through 2.6.0 to 2.6.9, I stuck with 2.6.9 for quite a while. For some reason my firewire storage support wasn’t working properly in 2.6.9 (even though my USB storage did). So I just compiled 2.6.10, and now it works. Easy. Sometimes, even with Linux, it just works. Now I can leave my iPod dock at home with the firewire connection, and use the USB connection at work where I don’t have firewire. This is handy because the back of my PC is hard to reach – I was getting fed up with having to crawl around there every time I wanted to switch between using the iPod at work and at home.
Of course, I read 2.6.11 is here now. Well, it’s not quite a Debian source package yet, so I’m holding off for the moment.