On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 22:31 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I think I just wasted a bunch of money on a IEEE1394 firewire card. > > I can load modules and see a device on the PCI bus using lspci. > But there isn't anything in the /proc/bus/ that matches 'ieee1394' > > I can't get any more information on how to debug this crap or what to do with > the ieee1394 device mailing list. So I'm just going to appeal the greater > population of the distrobution I am using. > > Can someone identify a currently available PCI based IEEE1394 card that doesn't > suck? > > I can't run gscanbus because it crashes my system. > I can't get any significant logs from dmesg or anything else. > I can't get any response from the ieee1394 mailing list. > This reminds me when I first tried to use USB devices under linux, but I was > hoping that firewire was a bit more mature than USB was 5 years ago. > > Yeah, I'm frustrated, but I'm also stuck. Seeing as I run a very "stuffed" machine, one with every PCI slot filled, Order of cards *IS* important. I was forever having problems, spurious reboots, commands that just froze the machine... etc. It might take 20 different re-orderings (depending on how many slots and cards are there), before you find a stable config. I know, this is 2006, and this kind of thing shouldn't happen... well they do and it sucks. -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net The technology that is Stronger, better, faster: Linux
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