status of firewire in recent kernels?

[Pablo Rosell Gonzalez]

On Fri, 31 May 2002, R Shapiro wrote:

> Bill Fink writes:
>  > Here are my kernel settings:
>  > 
>  > 	CONFIG_IEEE1394=m
>  > 	CONFIG_IEEE1394_OHCI1394=m
>  > 	CONFIG_IEEE1394_VIDEO1394=m
>  > 	CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2=m
>  > 	CONFIG_IEEE1394_DV1394=m
>  > 	CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=m
>  > 
>  > The VIDEO1394 and DV1394 are for video devices so you probably don't
>  > need those.  The RAWIO is optional but is handy, especially for the
>  > gscanbus utility which scans the FireWire bus.
> 
> 
> Thanks, works very nicely for my firewire cd-rw, at least if the unit
> is on when the machine boots.  Powering it up while linux is running
> doesn't seem to work.  That's not a big deal though.  I haven't
> actually written a cd yet but 'cdrecord -scanbus' sees the device and
> I can read cds from /dev/scd0.
> 

I think it should work even though you power up after booting, just take 
care of disconnecting one end of the firewire cable, then power up your 
cd-rw, wait about 10 seconds, reconnect the cable and install the 
modules.

Good Luck,
	Pablo.