Hi Joel. This laptop doesn't have a Firewire port on the motherboard. Firewire is kinda old school I/O. I did this exact same thing with my previous laptop and Flex 3000. Worked absolutely 100% perfect.
Buy a cheap (I forgot exactly, but around $25 or so) Firewire card that slides into the Express Card slot I mentioned in my original message. I'm not a computer engineer, but this slot gives the Firewire card low level access to the data bus without additional interrupts to contend with. Much better than using a motherboard Firewire port (if you even have one). It's a great solution for Flex radios that NEED a Firewire connection. You don't find many really nice laptops that even have an Express Card slot. That's why this is a great laptop to have if you want to do anything portable with your Flex 3000 or 5000! Tim, WK4U On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 1:26 AM, Joel Baldwin <[email protected]> wrote: > > How are you doing firewire ( 1394 ) on the new laptop? > > I'd like to be proven wrong, but last time I looked new laptops were no > longer coming with firewire ports or a PCcard/ExpressCard slot to add a > controller. > > What is this new laptop? > > ADVthaAnksNCE > > Joel M. Baldwin > AI6DG > > --On Thursday, January 14, 2016 7:33 PM -0500 Tim Lemmon < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hey everyone. >> >> . . . snip . . . > > radio and this computer. The only reason I'm selling it is because I >> bought a large 17" touch screen laptop for all my portable ham radio fun. >> > > . . . snip . . . > >> >> Tim, WK4U (good in QRZ) >> > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > [email protected] > To opt out of the Reflector: > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] To opt out of the Reflector: http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz
