Raw devices problem

[Wolfgang]

On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 08:22, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2004, Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 20 May 2004 00:56:48 +0000, Dan Haines wrote
> > > Since posting this, I have found a command called: testlibraw
> > > 
> > > When I ran this, I get a response of:
> > > 
> > > couldn't get handle: No such device or address
> > > This probably means that you don't have raw1394 support in the 
> > > kernel or that you haven't loaded the raw1394 module.
> > > 
> > > I then searched the net looking for similar problems, and came across
> > > this:
> > > 
> > > http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread/t-1700.html
> > > 
> > > I will give recompiling the kernel a go, and report back with my
> > > findings.
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dan
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 20 May 2004 00:36:03 +0000
> > > Dan Haines <dan.haines at metservice.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi all.
> > > > 
> > > > Since upgrading to the 2.6 kernel, I am having the exact same problem
> > > > as this guy, word for word.  I have pasted the url, as there are
> > > > suggestions in the thread which have been tried by the user, and
> > > > myself, to no avail.  If anyone has any ideas, or information, please
> > > > post here!
> > > > 
> > > > http://www.webservertalk.com/message199531.html
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Dan
> > <snip>
> > 
> > I had that problem too. (I have a digital camcorder that needs to use this
> > driver) The raw1394 module doen't install by default (for some reason). So I
> > simply added it to my /etc/rc.d/rc.local file by inserting a 'modprobe
> > raw1394'. Now when I reboot the system it loads automatically.
> > 
> 
> Well, I installed FC2, and when I try the modprobe it says that it can't 
> find it.  I tried "yum install raw1394" and *that* doesn't work either.
> 
> Wow, I'd hoped that FC2 would support my digital camcorder *better* than 
> FC1.  Instead, it doesn't support it at all.
> 
> Crap.
> 
> Any idea when the kernel will support firewire?  I'm just *dreaming* of 
> the day I can toss Win2K.
> 
> Ben
> 
What about using the insmod raw1394, does that one work?? I don't run
the 2.6 kernel yet, so I don't know if that command works. I don't
intend to goto 2.6 until all the problems are resolved. (I would have
thought that this would all have been done with the 2.5 kernels)

Wolf