werner maes wrote: > I would like to have an answer as well ! > in EL4 I needed to recompile the kernel myself, in EL3 you had the > kernel-unsupported package. > > so what about EL5 and firewire??
EL5 does not include ieee1394.ko. Fedora Core 6 does. Therefore, firewire support is not included/enabled in EL5. > > werner > > At 06:30 30/04/2007, you wrote: >> So, is this is a big no on the firewire support? >> >> # wc -l /lib/modules/*/modules.ieee1394map >> 1 /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.1.1.el5/modules.ieee1394map >> 1 /lib/modules/2.6.18-8.el5/modules.ieee1394map >> 2 total >> >> It would have been nice to mention it in the Release Notes: >> >> # egrep -i '(1394|firewire)' RELEASE-NOTES-en >> >> Or maybe there is just something I don't know about how >> to use it in RHEL5 since libraw1394 is included (my >> reference is FC6, where there are a bunch of kmods in >> kernel/drivers/ieee1394). >> >> I don't remember hearing anything definite on these lists, >> but our reseller (dlt.com) did send a marketing message >> claiming better support for "USB and Firewire devices." >> >> I did find this Bugzilla about a conflict between the names >> of the firewire "raw1394" and the 1,394th raw device: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233956 >> I guess systems with thousands of raw devices are more >> important than all the firewire hardware out there. :) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rhelv5-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list > > > > Disclaimer: http://www.kuleuven.be/cwis/email_disclaimer.htm > > _______________________________________________ > rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list -- Are you mentally here at Pizza Hut?? _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
