I received a bug report regarding the USB Drivers, indicating that emptool fails to connect to the empeg on the initial attempt after loading the driver as a module. Thereafter, it seems to do just fine (at least on my hardware). The work-around, for the moment, is to load the driver, attempt a connection, quit the attempt using ^c or just let it time out, and then attempt the connection again. The solution to the problem exists, but implementing the fix breaks a lot of other stuff.

Yes, that's exactly what I'm seeing, except the workaround doesn't always work. Is the problem in the driver or in emplode? I was suspecting emplode since even when it fails to connect it *is* getting data from the driver but it doesn't like it for some reason (haven't had time to check why).

I'd like to get this working reliably since I'm trying to do other stuff with the player over USB.

Wishes,
Borislav