On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 07:21, sigir wrote: > Mark Knecht <markknecht@xxxxxxxxxxx> a ?crit : > > > Yeah, but no one does 1394 support under Linux yet. Bummer. > > What about an adapter PCMCIA (in the laptop) ==> firewire? Does > Linux see it as PCMCIA or as firewire ? It sees it as both. PCMCIA (cardbus) is a 'physical' interface, if you will. You system would load a driver for that controller, but mostly it's a bridge to whatever cardbus device you plug in. If you plug in a cardbus 1394 adapter, then the system needs 1394 drivers. If you plug in a cardbus Ethernet adapter, then it needs Ethernet drivers. If you plug in a cardbus USB 2.0 adapter, then the system needs USB drivers. Mostly the system should not card about the cardbus controller, but not all of these controllers work real well, and they do use different drivers. The problem with 1394 under Linux that I was speaking of was really support for devices like the Firewire 410 that was mentioned earlier. That's not happening. To the best of my knowledge no one is writing drivers for that. The conversation was had recently on the Linux1394 lists. One guy has written M-Audio asking for info so that possibly someone could, but I don't think there's anything happening. Chicken and egg. Why buy one if there's no support? - Mark
