[LAU] howto get pcmcia firewire card working

[david]

On 06/27/2014 10:28 AM, Wayne DePrince Jr. wrote:
> On ven, 2014-06-27 at 07:11 -1000, david wrote:
>> On 06/27/2014 05:12 AM, Wayne DePrince Jr. wrote:
>> > On gio, 2014-06-26 at 09:11 +0200, Jeremy Jongepier wrote:
>> >> On 06/26/2014 01:37 AM, Wayne DePrince Jr. wrote:
>> >> >http://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/FireWire/2-Port-ExpressCard-1394a-FireWire-Laptop-Adapter-Card~EC13942A2  <http://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/FireWire/2-Port-ExpressCard-1394a-FireWire-Laptop-Adapter-Card%7EEC13942A2>   <http://www.startech.com/Cards-Adapters/FireWire/2-Port-ExpressCard-1394a-FireWire-Laptop-Adapter-Card%7EEC13942A2>
>> >> >
>> >> > only problem is the previously mentioned problem with hot-plugging (i.e.
>> >> > where the card must be in the laptop at boot up).  otherwise works
>> >> > great.
>> >> >
>> >> > peace, w
>> >>
>> >>http://subversion.ffado.org/wiki/HostControllers#VIA
>> >>
>> >> So does it also work at 88.2kHz and higher for you?
>> >>
>> >> Jeremy
>> >>
>> >      though i mainly work at 48 kHz/24 bit, it works fine at 96/24 as
>> > well with my Editorl FA-66.  however, it appears my controller is not
>> > VIA but TI:
>> >
>> > 04:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2000(A)/XIO2200A PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03)
>> > 05:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments XIO2200A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) (rev 01)
>>
>> Hmmm, my understanding is that the TI firewire chips were THE best chips
>> to use with Linux?
>
>      i am not sure about it being the best FW chipset, but i can vouch
> that it works well with no problems (aside from the hotplug issue
> already mentioned).

I meant "best" in the sense of they worked reliably and were well 
supported by Linux.

My old Toshiba laptop had a Firewire (FW400) port on it, with a TI 
chipset, but I was never able to get to work with the FW800 device I had 
to test with. I think problem may have been the adaptor I had to use. 
But that laptop finally died and vanished into recycling heaven.

Sometimes I think a compact case with a microATX mobo and a PCIe FW card 
wouldn't be much bigger than some laptops. Bring a small LCD display and 
keyboard along with it, I suppose.

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