Finally! I’ve got a black iPod nano. Almost three weeks after deciding to buy one I could finally plug it into one of the extra USB connectors on the back of my Apple keyboard. Wonderful Gnome; it is automagically mounted and placed on my desktop. I fire up gtkpod to fill it with some music. No success there. Gtkpod did some things, but no music was actually transferred. I didn’t have time to investigate further, so I just plugged it into the keyboard on my Mac. I installed the software for it, and expected iTunes to find it. No luck there. I rebooted and inserted it into the USB on the back instead. Bingo! Except for being the 2G version I’m all happy now. Remains to be investigated is why gtkpod failed, but that is just an interesting challenge!