It's broken out of the box. Firewire worked in a straight FC6 install; it doesn't work in a straight F7 install. There are various fixes but they break other things. For me, they break the nVidia driver support. (The fix is to use the EZPlanet kernel).
On 27/10/2007, KH KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007/10/27, Martin Ellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > There used to be Fedora Core and Fedora Extras. They merged them, hence > just > > Fedora now. > > > > Firewire support is broken on F7. > > Firewire isn't broken on Fedora, this is mythology. But actually only > newer firewire devices (or somehow some models) are supported by the > new juju stack... > there is sometime tweaks to do (specially for the /dev/fw-0 perms ) > vi /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules. > and add > KERNEL=="fw*", OWNER="root" GROUP="firewire" MODE="0660" > > Older models that want old firewire stack (which will be broken as > this is an unstable old stack ) can have a workaround with installing > an external kernel module package: > > The one i've made is experimental and gives back the old firewire stack > seehttp://kwizart.free.fr/fedora/7/testing/ieee1394/ (eth1394.ko isn't > working safe to rm ) > You will need the old userland libs also (probably libraw1394 and > others...etc) > This is an experimental package, if you don't knwo how to backlist > modules and load raw1394.ko, don't use it...( if you knwo how to do, > please give me feedback about which modules to blacklist fro loading > into kernel) > > There was an experimental repository that have userland tools rebuilt > for the old stack... I think it could be used, but it has also a > kernel which is not necessary... > http://www.ezplanetone.com/xwiki/bin/view/KnowledgeBase/BrokenFC7FireWire > > Nicolas (kwizart ) > > -- Regards, Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) IT: http://methodsupport.com Personal: http://thereisnoend.org
