Hey Matt, I've been using 2.4.20 and 2.4.21 from a kernel.org mirror to be able to use my external firewire drive. I'm not sure of the fundamental diffs, between them, but I think you want the OHCI, instead of the PCILynx 1394 driver. I'm not sure, but I seem to have a dim memory about Apple's 1394 implementation being OHCI-based. On my 8500 with a PCI card using a TI firewire chipset, the firewire modules laoded are:
kaiso:~ 8:29:43 1% cat /proc/modules video1394 13316 0 (unused) sbp2 17168 0 (unused) raw1394 20700 0 (unused) ohci1394 28336 0 [video1394] ieee1394 47104 0 [video1394 sbp2 raw1394 ohci1394] The video1394 isn't needed, and I don't think the raw1394 is necessary either. But I don't have a PCILynx module. HTH vinai (change "4" to "for" for my actual e-mail address) On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Matt Price wrote: > hi everyone, > > this is sort of a repost. I am having trouble getting debian (mostly > woody, some sid) to recognize the external firewire drive currently > hooked up to my blue-and-white g3. I have scsi support compiled in, > sbp2 and pcilynx enabled as modules, and have tried using > rescan-scsi-bus.sh from the scsitools package (thanks vinai, for > telling us where to find that in debian). All to no avail. > /var/log/messages shows no errors, /proc/bus/ieee1394/devices seems fine. > > Anyone have any idea what's up? anyone ever gotten a firewire hard > drive to work on a blue-and-white-g3? what kernel did you use?