Am 09.08.2011 20:03, schrieb Todd And Margo Chester:
> On 08/05/2011 11:32 PM, Alexander Hunt wrote:
>> On 08/05/2011 08:27 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>>> On 08/05/2011 04:55 PM, Alexander Hunt wrote:
>>>> On 08/05/2011 04:44 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am running sl6 x64.
>>>>>
>>>>> Question: is there some module I can modprobe at boot
>>>>> that will get wake up my two Firewire ports?  Any
>>>>> other method?
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks,
>>>>> -T
>>>>>
[...]
>>
>> If it's not an Apple, I'd be checking in the BIOS too, to see if there
>> is somewhere in there the firewire ports can be turned on and off.
>> Lastly, if it's a expansion card that's just been installed, you
>> probably will need to add the modules and/or there could be some
>> firmware that's needed for that particular device. I'm not all that
>> sure about that part. 
>>
[...]
> 
> $ lsmod | grep -i firewire
> firewire_ohci          24867  0
> firewire_core          50853  1 firewire_ohci
> crc_itu_t               1683  1 firewire_core
> 

Seems like your ports do not get picked up by the kernel. Do they appear
in `/usr/sbin/lspci -v`? If not, double check your BIOS-settings.

I've also seen odd cases where firewire ports were bound to other
peripherals and enabling something unrelated like onboard sound or SD
card readers was necessary to get it working. So my advice is to just
enable every peripheral that doesn't crash your system and check if it
works.

Regards,
Florian Philipp