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
