Re: No ieee1394 in RHES4?

[Ed Greshko <Ed Greshko greshko com>]

Jin Zhao wrote:
> Recently I tried to use a firewire hard drive on one of our RHES4
> update2 servers. I was surprised to find no ieee1394 and related kernel
> modules inside the 2.6.9-22.0.1.ELsmp kernel. 
> 
> Is this true or I did something wrong? Did redhat disable ieee1394
> related kernel funtions? In that case, may I need rebuild the kernel to
> create those modules?

Yes, firewire support is disabled in RHEL.  If you want it you'll need
to build your own kernel.

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