On Feb 12, 2007, at 2:59 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
I've got a couple of B&W G3 machines. I've tried every Debian kernel up thru the latest in SID. The pcilynx driver crashes on bootup every time. I can disable it by putting it in the blacklist file, which gives me a clean boot but no FireWire. You're right about USB. It works well enough for keyboard and mouse on the B&W G3. Should I file a bugreport? Is so, against which package?Best might be to send a mail to the linux ieee1394 mailing list though Ican foresee people telling you to get your self a cheap OCHI1394 PCI card instead :-) Ben.
Actually, I did that -- OHCI combo USB & 1394 card -- and it didn't help. The pcilynx driver still crashed (no surprise there) and even after I blacklisted pcilynx, the FireWire part of the combo card wasn't recognized. Or at least that's how I remember what happened -- it was a while ago.
Maybe I should try the whole thing again and write down the details. Can you give me a URL for the linux ieee1394 mailing list? Thanks! Rick