Hi Pieter and anyone else following this discussion. After some additional troubleshooting, I've discovered that either the Expresscard or the Expresscard adapter in my M1210 is the culprit in this problem. I hope it's the card, because at least I can throw that out :) I got desperate and tried out the whole setup in Windows (*sigh*), and it didn't work there either. Interestingly, the onboard Ricoh firewire works perfectly - it's total failure to work at all in Linux was the start of this quest, so I'm a bit bewildered. Anyway, thanks to everyone for the help and goodwill. Chris _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user