Matthew Hannigan was once rumoured to have said: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 10:27:02AM +1000, Broun, Bevan wrote: > > It's a kernel thing rather than a distro thing. Ive go 2.4.19 running and > > it's configuration contains a menu "IEEE 1394 (EXPERIMENTAL"). Do a kernel > > config and see if your device is listed there. > > AFAIK, it's been used successfully for quite > some time now, so you would think they would > make it non experimental.
Uh, hell no. The linux firewire stack is still braindead in parts. When I looked at the source for the IEEE1394 OHCI driver in 2.4.18 it was fundamentally broken (failure to handle certain soft-failure/error cases with any sort of dignity), and wasn't working with certain SBP2 devices because of these problems. The IEEE1394 CVS snapshot I looked at about a month/month-half ago was not much better. I get the impression that the Lynx driver is better though. The support is definately not ready to be called stable for quite some time yet. C. -- --==============================================-- Crossfire | This email was brought to you [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on 100% Recycled Electrons --==============================================-- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
