multiple cameras on one card

[C.Netramai <cha...@gm...>]

I have the similar problem to the following post

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=7492&max_rows=25&style=nested&viewmonth=200303

In my case, I have five cameras connected to a 6 port repeater and the
repeater is connected to the computer's firewire pci card.

The post from last year says the bus bandwidth is exceeding and a
second host adaptor is needed.  However, this configuration seems to
work fine under Windows XP.

So my question is; is it possible to have this configuration (5 cams,
one port, one card) working under linux? Perhaps there are some update
since last year to correct this problem?

Thank you and have a nice day,
Netramai