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Re: firewire, printing, and sound on iBook DV 2K



"Tuomas Kuosmanen" <tigert@ximian.com> writes:

> I dont have any firewire devices, but using Ben's kernel tree
> (linux-2.4-benh) from 2 weeks ago, version being 2.4.5-pre3, I get
> the module inserted ok, and it seems to recognize the thing. However
> I dont currently have any firewire devices. I am planning to buy a
> FW harddisk though, so I can volunteer as a guinea pig in the near
> future. Any recommendations on which ones should work on Linux?

Yes. Look at linux1394.sourceforge.net. They have a recommendations
page. 

Unless you've got an x86 box, I wouldn't run out and buy things just
yet. The code to get firewire working on big-endian systems isn't even
in CVS yet. 

jas.



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