Re: firewire
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Tom Allison wrote:
> Jay Zach wrote:
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>> Tom Allison wrote:
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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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>>
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>> Sounds about like the same problem I have. I found the solution on
>> some list
>> somewhere ( Can't remember if it was here or not). It's a weird
>> solution, but
>> works for me.
>>
>> I have to do a "rmmod iee1394" , then it just works....
>>
>> Strange, huh? Hope it's the same issue for you....
>>
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> I can't remove ieee1394. It says it's required for raw1394. I can remove
> ohci1394
> ieee1394
> raw1394
> but when I modprobe raw1394 it pulls ieee1394 in without the ohci1394.
> Only after I load ohci1394 does it even try to work with 'kino'
>
>
Sorry, it was actually the eth1394 module that needs rm'ed for me, not ieee1394....
I should have went and double checked my notes, instead of doing it from memory...
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