Oh shite..This is like the biggest disappointment this year.
Could there be a fast routine I could run at the store to test whether it'd
work? I'll be bringing my laptop with me so I guess I should at least be
able to determine whether the device can be used.
Thanks for the response so far guys.
Scott: Is your lspci -v output similar?
~$ sudo lspci -v
...
08:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
(prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30b2
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 16
Memory at d4101000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
Kernel modules: ohci1394
...