On Thu, April 5, 2007 9:11 pm, Kerry wrote: > Hi all, > > I scored a DV camera recently and after some looking around I settled on > using kino for basic video editing. > > Now my problem with this is my ACER Travelmate 2310 does not have > firewire ports so it looks as if I'm going to have to fork out for a PC > Card. > > Has anyone played around with PCMCIA firewire cards? if so what would > they recommend someone running Ubuntu 6.06 use? I've come across two > different cards (url's below) at Dick Smith and Trademe but none of them > state if they are Linux capable, so any pointer would be appreciated > > Kerry > > http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/4614bbb400ed4366273fc0a87f3306de/Product/View/XH9026 > > http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/Laptops/PCMCIA-cards/auction-94172847.htm > > http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/Laptops/PCMCIA-cards/auction-94191066.htm > > firewire is well supported under linux, but I am not sure about pccard support. I am encouraged to see terms like OHCI in the specs.
The DSE one will have a 14 day no questions return warranty, so would be a no risk investment. > > -- Nick Rout
