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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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