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jahgu
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 Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 6:18 pm Post subject: pcmcia firewire adapter |
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I have an Adaptec firewire adapter in the pcmcia slot on my laptop. My external firewire sony cdrw goes into this. I'm trying to figure out how to use it in gentoo. I'm pretty sure that i've enabled the stuff i need in the kernel, and i've emerged pcmcia-cs, etc. This just doesn't seem to be something that people have come across, since I haven't found anything from searching.
(the light on top of it goes on when the kernel loads if that means anything, and when i plug it in when linux is running) |
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jahgu
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| Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2003 6:37 pm Post subject: I'm back, sort of |
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Well, i now have a 250gig external hd to hook up to this adapter as well as a cd burner, so it was important to figure this out. I tried knoppix and it auto did EVERYTHING, configuring stuff automatically, absolutely amazing. So i tried suse 8.1, and that's what i'm on now. I think i can try gentoo again since i now more about getting everything to work, something about scsi emulation, kernel stuff, blah blah. If anyone had directions on this that would make it much easier. suse 8.1 is cool, but RPM's blow my *&#. I want my simple emerge command back. Love it. Later,
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xz_clark
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| Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 7:15 pm Post subject: Re: pcmcia firewire adapter |
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| jahgu wrote: | I have an Adaptec firewire adapter in the pcmcia slot on my laptop. My external firewire sony cdrw goes into this. I'm trying to figure out how to use it in gentoo. I'm pretty sure that i've enabled the stuff i need in the kernel, and i've emerged pcmcia-cs, etc. This just doesn't seem to be something that people have come across, since I haven't found anything from searching.
(the light on top of it goes on when the kernel loads if that means anything, and when i plug it in when linux is running) |
Here's what I did.
1. get your cardbus card recognized and configured.
2. if ieee1394 and ohci1394 are not loaded by cardmgr,
manually do
modprobe ieee1394
modprobe ohci1394
3. do "modprobe sd_mod"
4. Plug in your firewire hd
5. do "modprobe sbp2".
Then you can find an entry in /dev as /dev/sda1
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/extHD
To my experience, you have to plug in your device before sbp2 module is loaded, otherwise you won't see the device. I guess that's because the scsi stack of linux dosen't support hot-plugging. There are some scripts that can help you do rescan the bus, but I never tried them.
Hope that helps. |
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cc
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Joined: 09 Aug 2002
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Location: Taipei, Taiwan
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| Posted: Sat Jan 11, 2003 4:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Here's what I did.
1. get your cardbus card recognized and configured. |
From my experience. I turned off the pcmcia support in kernel (gentoo-sources) and uses the pcmcia-cs one. But whatever I tried, ohci1394_cs.o just don't compile! And this file is crucial for use pcmcia firewire cards.
I then looked the configure file of pcmcia-cs package, I realized that there is no way to get this module compiled. In the middle of the configure, it greps a kernel header file (sorry I didn't remember) for a string and in gentoo-sources this string was not there. I don't know whether other kernel has it.
Couldn't figure it out. So now if I want to use firewire, I go back to my XP box.  |
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