On 31/08/2011 09:32, Atte André Jensen wrote: > On 08/31/2011 09:08 AM, david wrote: > >> I've never seen a netbook with Firewire, though, I kind of doubt you're >> going to find any. I'd go with the Thinkpad if the built-in Firewire is >> supported by Linux. If the builtin FW isn't supported, you might be able >> to use a Firewire expansion card in the Thinkpad's slot. > > I called the company, that has the Thinkpad X61s for sale. He couldn't > say anything about the firewire chip (and google didn't know), but my > gut feeling tells me it's gonna work, otherwise I have 2 weeks to return > it if there's any problems... > i have one of these boxes running nicely with debian. as i do not using firewire much i cannot say much more than that it worked when i tested it after buying. lspci says 05:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04) i can quite recommend this box and thinkpads in general, http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X61s etc. has an exhaustive list of hardware built into these boxes. hth, tee _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
