[LAU] howto get pcmcia firewire card working

[Clemens Ladisch]

Atte wrote:
> Ok, now I'm back with a different card (expresscard).
>
> 05:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6315 Series Firewire Controller (rev 01)
>
> firewire_ohci: Added fw-ohci device 0000:05:00.0, OHCI v1.10, 4 IR + 8 IT contexts, quirks 0x11
> firewire_core: created device fw0: GUID 0011066600000001, S400

So the hardware appears to work fine.

> So some devices get's created:
> atte at vestbjerg:~$ ls -alh /dev/fw*
> crw-------  1 root root  252, 0 Jul  2 14:44 /dev/fw0
> crw-rw---T+ 1 root video 252, 1 Jul  2 14:44 /dev/fw1

udev has correctly recognized the device as an audio/video device.

> jackdmp 1.9.9
> ...
> libffado 2.999.0- built Jun 28 2012 15:59:48
> 00867212258: Error (ieee1394service.cpp)[ 185] detectNbPorts: Could not get libraw1394 handle.
> This usually means:
>  a) The device-node /dev/raw1394 doesn't exists because you don't have a

/dev/raw1394 would have been used with old kernels.

Try updating libraw1394 (and Jack while you're at it).
Is this the software that came with your distribution (which one)?


Regards,
Clemens