firewire
I have an Agere Systems FW323 chipset firewire card that I think should work
under linux based on some linux compatibility stuff I found on the internet.
For the most part it does.
tallison@isengard:~$ lsmod | grep 1394
raw1394 25580 4
ohci1394 30388 0
ieee1394 88376 2 raw1394,ohci1394
During boot I get:
Apr 19 19:25:47 localhost kernel: ohci1394: $Rev: 1313 $ Ben Collins
<bcollins@debian.org>
Apr 19 19:25:47 localhost kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: Unexpected PCI resource
length of 1000!
Apr 19 19:25:47 localhost kernel: ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI):
IRQ=[193] MMIO=[e8000000-e80007ff] Max Packet=[2048]
But I have to manually modprobe raw1394:
Apr 19 19:26:44 localhost kernel: ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
However, I continuously get a message that 'no camera exists' when I try to grab
anything. Yes, the camera is on. No the camera doesn't seem to think there is
much to talk to either. Once I get a 'DV-IN' message on the camera.
Sounds like a bad cable?
Might be, I haven't any way of knowing, the cable is about 2 hours old.
But digging around I found mention of something called gscanbus as a tool to
identify what's on my system. It generally doesn't do much useful. In fact
once started, it doesn't really appear to do anything at all. Then after about
3 minutes my entire system freezes and I have to pull the plug and restart the
system. keyboard, mouse, network, everything.
Because of this, I'm not entirely certain it's just a cable.
I'm currently running 2.6.15-1-486 kernel
Any suggestions? I'm not sure what the next step is other than to get an RMA
and never try firewire again.
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