Rio Karma

Manufacturer: Rio / Digital Networks North America (DNNA)

Model number: Karma

Chipset:

Reason (no specs from manufacturer, really new hardware, etc): Firmware can only be updated with Windows binaries. No USB driver is provided.

Brokeness (1 to 10 with 10 meaning it works perfectly): 7

URL for more information:

Bugzilla # for kernel bugs database:

Contact (your email):

Notes: Although a java application is provided to transfer songs to/from the player via ethernet, there is no driver provided for Linux users to make use of the USB 2.0 interface resulting in much slower transfer times (which makes a big difference since the Karma has a 20GB HDD).

Comments (this is where other people comment on the entry):

16 has a driver for the Karma partition table. This suggests usb-storage support is now a reality, you need to test and revalidate this entry.

There is a project currently (JULY-2006) working on a full read/write solution for transferring music and Rio taxi files. See http://linux-karma.sourceforge.net/ for more information. the LibKarma code allows one to copy between Linux and the Rio Karma using USB2 using the command “riocp”.

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(Has been found to work with much earlier 2.6 kernels, if you locate the java based rmmlite.jar package - a “lite” version of the original windows based rmm app. As long as you have java installed. I can’t say whether the rmmlite.jar is still available, as I had my copy since Sept 05 (from the original Rio site) and have had few/no problems using under various distros)