iPod and FC 2

[Colin Charles]

On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 03:34, Kevin Wang wrote:
> To be more specific - FC2 non-updated kernels are known to not support
> firewire. you must upgrade the kernel to get firewire.  I'm not
> exactly sure which one has it though. check the archives, and thre are
> other people who have specified which ones do and don't.

>From the latest in updates, is kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2

 grep -i 1394 /boot/config-2.6.7-1.494.2.2
# IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support
CONFIG_IEEE1394=m
# CONFIG_IEEE1394_VERBOSEDEBUG is not set
CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB=y
# CONFIG_IEEE1394_EXTRA_CONFIG_ROMS is not set
# CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX is not set
CONFIG_IEEE1394_OHCI1394=m
CONFIG_IEEE1394_VIDEO1394=m
CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2=m
# CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2_PHYS_DMA is not set
# CONFIG_IEEE1394_ETH1394 is not set
CONFIG_IEEE1394_DV1394=m
CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=m
CONFIG_IEEE1394_CMP=m
CONFIG_IEEE1394_AMDTP=m

What shipped with FC2 itself did not have Firewire set
grep -i 1394 /boot/config-2.6.5-1.358
# IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support
# CONFIG_IEEE1394 is not set

New iPod's however (4th gen) are USB devices, no Firewire cable by
default...
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