firewire dvd-burner and kernel 2.6.6

Dexter Ang thepoch at mydestiny.net
Tue Jun 15 14:01:15 UTC 2004


Edward wrote:
> 
> 
> nikolo at ono.com wrote:
> 
>> Hi, may you help me?
>> I use FC2 and I downloaded the last 2.6.6 kernel using "up2date" and I 
>> supposed
>> that my IEEE1394 external DVD burner will be enabled or detected by 
>> 'kuzdu'
>> on next boot, but it did not happen nothing different than when I was 
>> using
>> the 2.6.5 default FC2 kernel.
>>
>> In the past it worked with FC1 and kernel 2.4.22 even I had to 
>> rescan-scsi-bus,
>> but know it is not detected...
>>
>> What should I do to activate it?
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> Francisco.
> 
> 
> Maybe you should've stuck with FC1?
> 
> Remember to always read up on new releases. It's been discussed at 
> length that firewire doesn't work with the new FC2.

Actually from what I understand, the latest kernel updates have firewire 
enabled already. Although it's still not recommended to use firewire in 
production systems, just for further testing until all bugs are killed.

dex





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