Re: debian-user: Firewire?
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:54:39PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> On 7/13/06, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
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> >Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> >> So do I understand correctly, that FireWire support in Linux comes
> >> only with compiling the kernel with specific add-ons? Can someone
> >> with no desire to program use FireWire?
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> >So you think/say that *everyone* who wants to use Firewire
> >peripherals must program their own drivers?
> >
> >This is a troll, right?
>
> A non-programmer.
> I read that IP-over-FireWire can only be done in Linux by recompiling
> the kernel. Maybe this was wrong.
What work has to be done depends on whether your dist. has it compiled
in for the stock kernels. Apparently Debian's have it.
I am a non-programmer (OK, OK, APL in high-school, main frame 360 out
of William and Mary...). Pure hobbyist at the OS level. I always roll
my own kernel. No programming involved, but it does require that you
learn a chunk about your box's innards.
Not hard to do, but requires patience and some time. Kernel-package
makes the installation easy. For myself, grub is automatically
updated, so the working older kernel is normally kept as a backup (as
long as it's a version change, at least, like 2.6.15 to 2.6.16) in case
what I've created turns into a monster on bootup.
It's not a bad idea to have a rescue partition set up on an unused Gb
chunk on your HD as well, along with a grub rescue floppy (CD?).
There must be at least a few hundred primers out there on doing this.
Try it sometime. :)
Kenward
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