Re: debian-user: Firewire?
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Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
> On 7/13/06, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote: 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?
>
> 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.
Compiling a kernel is *not* "programming". It does, though, take a
bit of geek knowledge.
What kernel are you running? If a stock Debian binary kernel, then
the work has probably been already done for you.
- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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