Hi All
I have a PCMCIA card ADS Pyro 1394 firewire Port for
Notebooks. It has a TI Chipset on it. I have a Toshiba
Tecra laptop and I have Red Hat AS 2.1 installed.

My kernel version is 2.4.20. I had 2.4.9 and the
system would panic on boot and hang on insertion
after boot.

After I installed 2.4.20, the system does not panic
on boot or hang on insertion.

modprobe ohci1394 gives an error as follows.

//lib/modules/2.4.20-18.10.1/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.o: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.20-18.10.1/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-18.10.1/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-18.10.1/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.o: insmod ohci1394 failed
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters

On boot I get the error.
/etc/fstab modprobe Can't locate module-blockmajor2.

I have two questions.
1. Is there a kernel and a PCMCIA card
which is known to work well together?

2. What do I need to to get this card working
so I can attach a western digital firewire disk on this?

Let me know..

Thanks
M

I have never tried this setup for firewire you have but you can try this.

What Linux version?

Have you update your pcmcia modules? If not download this and follow the read me for installing.
http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp...s-3.2.5.tar.gz

Once done reboot and try ' insmod ohci1394 '.

This is the only thing I can think of.

Good luck
Brian1

Hmm, what version of RedHat is this?

2.4.9 seems like 7.1 if I remember right, 7.2 maybe, old nonetheless. pcmcia-cs didn't handle cardbus cards too well, and that's certainly what you've got, although RedHat back then compiled pcmcia-cs seperate instead of using the in-kernel modules, so Brian has it almost dead right, make certain your 2.4.20 is compiled with in-kernel pcmcia, then compile pcmcia-cs from sourceforge against that kernel source tree, its important so as to get the proggy side of pcmcia-cs, it'll not compile the modules as it'll detect that you're using the in-kernel poo. After installing pcmcia-cs, insert the card and check "dmesg". If its a cardbus card, which I assume it is, it should make a cb lock at the end of dmesg, which makes the firewire card appear under /sbin/lspci just like any pci device.

You then hand modprobe the module like above.

If its a pcmcia card... well, it'll beep twice or it won't, we'll find out, again, dmesg will help for debugging. If its a pcmcia card, cardmgr has to load the module, but it might just be a matter of hacking in an ident line into /etc/pcmcia/config...

Make certain to compile all the pcmcia support into the kernel that you can find, there will be some stuff under firewire too.

Cheers,

Finegan

Hi Guys
Thanks for the tips. I am Installing AS 2.1 which installs
2.4.9 and then I am patching to 2.4.20 using an rom.
I then probe for ohci1394. I will try the steps you guys
recommended.

I am planning to do the following.
1. Install Red Hat AS 2.1. (kernel 2.4.9)
2. Upgrade my kernel to 2.4.20.
3. Install the pmcmcia module stack.
And the probe.
Then try to probe it. I will post a summary
with step by steps instructions so other people
can benefit.

I was actually looking up www.linux1394.org and
they had this card bus driver listed as working.
I need to figure out what they have.

I might have missed what Brian said i.e. to install
the pcmcia configs. My card might be listed there.
Hopefully.

Thanks
M