On 6/23/06, Axel Thimm <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 02:18:45PM +0200, Urs Beyerle wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Because SL3 "supports" firewire and SL4 does not, some user asked for
> > firewire support in SL4.
> >
> > Therefore I have some questions:
> >
> > Has anybody any experience with firewire and SL4?
> > Has anybody compiled the firewire modules for the SL4 kernel with out
> > recompiling the SL4 kernel?
>
> Red Hat turned off the kernel support for firewire due to stability
> issues:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/nahant-list/2005-February/msg00235.html
>
> I don't think any newer RHEL4 kernel has patched up anything in this
> area, at least not according to the changelogs.
>
> So, if you do want to build kernel modules for SL4, you probably
> shouldn't use the firewire sources that ship with this kernel,
> otherwise you will run into issues.
>
> Oracle has packages for adding firewire to RHEL4:
>
> http://oss.oracle.com/projects/firewire/files/RedHat/RHEL4/
>
> I don't know what sources they use (and don't know where their src.rpm
> is).
>

I use the dell dkms firewire modules

http://linux.dell.com/files/dkms/
http://linux.dell.com/files/ieee1394/rhel4/

These should work with SCIL-4 and CENTOS-4. The 'advantage' I find in
the dkms is that when the kernel updates.. the ieee1394 is recompiled
to match the newer module needs. However that works only on
workstations with gcc and such on it.


> > What's about libraw1394 and libavc1394 for SL4? Take the one from ATrpms?
> > What's about firewire and hotplug support in SL4?
> >
> > If nobody has done anything, I will try to do it.
> > I will create something like
> > kernel-module-firewire-2.6.9-34.0.1.EL*.rpm. And I will test firewire on
> > SL4.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >    Urs
>
> --
> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
>
>
>


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Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator