On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 11:36:00AM +0100, Ismael Juma wrote:
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.
FWIW, I'm running 2.6.5-rc3-bk5 on a Mandrake 10 system and FireWire
is working perfectly with two DVD+RW drives. In contrast, 2.6.5's
FireWire completely explodes (it doesn't take the whole system down, but
it spews tons of messages and is completely useless.) Both of those are
mainline, BTW.
Since the latest posted arjanv kernel (2.6.5-1.349) is based on
2.6.6-rc3-bk, it should have the ieee1394 update and I would expect
it to work again. I don't know if I will have time to test this in
the next few days, however.
-Barry K. Nathan <barryn(a)pobox.com>