Bug#244539: firewire not supported
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Quoting Matthias Urlichs (smurf@smurf.noris.de):
> Hi,
>
> Christian Perrier:
> > > The CD reader should be accessible via standard sbp2, i.e. SCSI.
> >
> > Well, at least ot out of the box with beta3 (ie no autodetection).
>
> True -- I was talking only about the driver you'd need. I do know that
> d-i doesn't load the necessary firewire modules...
>
> Did you try talking to the CD reader on an already-installed Linux
> system? It's possible that the CD reader uses some sort of non-standard
> command set and/or device identifier. :-/
It already works on an already-installed Linux system as this is the
system I'm currently writing with. I use the 2.6.5-1-686 Debian
kernel.
I will soon report whether daily builds currently work out of the box
(ie without manual loading of any module) on this system. It seems
important to me that boxes like Dell Latitude X200 or X300, which use
such Firewire CD/DVD readers may be supported easily by Debian
Installer.
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