Re: [FFADO-devel] Developers still needed?

[Ctirad F. <c....@vo...>]

> But, before I get all carried away, I really need the unit working
> first. I hava a four pin firewire port on my Dell Inspiron 9400
> laptop. Ricoh firewire chip I believe. I have bought a firewire cable
> converter plug thingy that converts 6pin to 4pin. My problem is, the
> unit is not detected i neighter windows nor linux (at least nothing
> happens when I connect/disconnect it. Checked both log/messages and
> dmesg). 

Have you used the external power supply? The 4pin firewire is unpowered.

Regards,

Ctirad