Hi I got a new laptop without firewire. So I bought a delock pcmcia firewire card to be able to use my firewire soundcard. Since I couldn't see any hardware specs for the cards I looked at before buying, I simply went for the cheapest... I've been working with firewire a lot in the past, but only with build in controllers, so I'm not sure if I should do something special to get this card going. I obviously tried plugging it in and starting jack with the firewire driver for all available interfaces, but I get these errors: firewire ERR: FFADO: Error creating virtual device Cannot attach audio driver JackServer::Open failed with -1 no message buffer overruns Failed to open server 10:35:53.707 JACK was stopped with exit status=255. 10:35:54.785 Could not connect to JACK server as client. - Overall operation failed. - Unable to connect to server. Please check the messages window for more info. Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server request channel jack server is not running or cannot be started Those look familiar, they are exactly the same as on my desktop pc (that works with wirewire) when I don't have the soundcard plugged in. Of course it might be that the pcmcia card is simply not working under linux (I have no other os running, so I have to assume the card is in fact working under, say, windows). But what actions could I take to either get it working or convince myself that it's simply not supported? NB: I run crunchbang linux (=debian wheezy), which were installed prior to getting the card. The laptop is a Lenovo x220. NB2: I couldn't see anything in dmesg after inserting the card and lspci is the same with the card attached and detached... Any pointers appreciated!
i can "atte"st ;) to this card's performance with GNU/Linux, JACK, Ardour, etc.:
http://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/FireWire/2-Port-ExpressCard-1394a-FireWire-Laptop-Adapter-Card~EC13942A2
only problem is the previously mentioned problem with hot-plugging (i.e. where the card must be in the laptop at boot up). otherwise works great.
peace, w
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