Re: alubook 5,8: Firewire 400/800 possible with some recent kernel?
Hi Gaudenz
Thanks for your response.
On Sat, Dec 15 2007, at 12:37 +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:19:16PM +0100, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Anyone out there has got a device successfully connected to a
> > Powerbook 5,8 via its Firewire 800 or 400 port?
>
> I know that my firewire/usb harddisk worked in the past using ohci1394
> and sbp2. I did not try with the latest kernel. What errors do you get?
Some like these seem to reappear:
[ 2424.703052] ieee1394: Node changed: 0-02:1023 -> 0-00:1023
[ 2495.411909] ieee1394: Error parsing configrom for node 0-00:1023
[ 2495.412071] ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-02:1023
Stefan Richter tried more than a year ago to get a FW enclosure
working on that PowerBook5,8 .. it didn't work ... Quite a few threads
on that, IIRC, one of the latest starting here:
http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2006-September/025739.html
> I also had my iPod working with firewire.
That sounds encouraging ...
Perhaps I really should get a new FW enclosure ... Even one of the
latest kernels, IIRC, wasn't able to build a connection from the disk
to the FW port ... I suspect Apple having being down-powered the FW
ports on the alubook. Or simply changed important specs for
them. Because even my old tiBook-IV is able to connect to the same FW
disk, same enclosure ...
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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