Re: Module ohci1394 not found

[Ismael Juma <ijuma82 f2s com>]

David T Hollis wrote:

> For what it's worth, I was able to build and load the firewire modules
> against 2.6.5-1.347.  I used the latest ieee1394 branch from subversion
> using the attached Makefile.  I have not actually tested connecting any
> firewire devices but my experience with other recent kernels was that
> loading ohci1394 spewed out a bunch of stack dumps.

The ieee1394 branch from subversion was merged into one of the recent 
mainline kernels (I think it was between 2.6.6-rc2 and 2.6.6-rc3). I 
have been using vanilla 2.6.6-rc3 with firewire enabled and I have had 
no problems whatsoever. My maxtor external hard drive works as well as 
my internal one.

So I guess that for people that really require firewire capability, 
compiling their own kernels might be necessary (as it is for people who 
want Nvidia binary drivers or NTFS to work - I happen to need the three 
of them ;)).

Cheers,
Ismael