basler camera on firewire

[Robert L. <rob...@se...>]

hi everyone,

not sure how to approach this, don't know much about linux firewire
support/ any pointers welcome:

I have a basler a601f firewire camera, and a debian squeeze machine that
I would like to use the camera with. kernel is a 2.6.32-5-amd64, lspci
lists my firewire card:

03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW322/323 (rev 61)

lsmod | grep firew reports:

firewire_ohci          19676  0 
firewire_core          36848  2 firewire_sbp2,firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t               1307  1 firewire_core

i tail /var/log/kern.log and modprobe firewire_ohci debug=7 (after
removing it first of course):

Nov  1 23:40:08 sandbender kernel: [54557.082719] firewire_ohci
0000:03:01.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
Nov  1 23:40:08 sandbender kernel: [54557.152008] firewire_ohci: Added
fw-ohci device 0000:03:01.0, OHCI version 1.0
Nov  1 23:40:08 sandbender kernel: [54557.152014] firewire_ohci: IRQ
00000010 AR_req
Nov  1 23:40:08 sandbender kernel: [54557.152020] firewire_ohci: AR
evt_bus_reset, generation 147
Nov  1 23:40:08 sandbender kernel: [54557.152023] firewire_ohci: IRQ
00010000 selfID
Nov  1 23:40:08 sandbender kernel: [54557.152034] firewire_ohci: 1
selfIDs, generation 147, local node ID ffc0
Nov  1 23:40:08 sandbender kernel: [54557.152037] firewire_ohci: selfID
0: 807f8c56, phy 0 [---] S400 gc=63 -3W Lci
Nov  1 23:40:09 sandbender kernel: [54557.652109] firewire_core: created
device fw0: GUID 0000d100802a6abc, S400

if i leave it like that i get this every now and then:

Nov  1 23:41:06 sandbender kernel: [54614.877141] firewire_ohci: IRQ
00200000 cycle64Seconds

if i plug in my camera I get:

Nov  1 23:41:36 sandbender kernel: [54645.307192] firewire_ohci: AR
evt_bus_reset, generation 148

and unplugging the camera gives me:

Nov  1 23:41:56 sandbender kernel: [54665.004775] firewire_ohci: IRQ
00000010 AR_req
Nov  1 23:41:56 sandbender kernel: [54665.004782] firewire_ohci: AR
evt_bus_reset, generation 149
Nov  1 23:41:56 sandbender kernel: [54665.005770] firewire_ohci: IRQ
00000010 AR_req
Nov  1 23:41:56 sandbender kernel: [54665.005774] firewire_ohci: AR
evt_bus_reset, generation 150
Nov  1 23:41:56 sandbender kernel: [54665.005948] firewire_ohci: IRQ
00010000 selfID
Nov  1 23:41:56 sandbender kernel: [54665.005958] firewire_ohci: 1
selfIDs, generation 150, local node ID ffc0
Nov  1 23:41:56 sandbender kernel: [54665.005961] firewire_ohci: selfID
0: 807f8c56, phy 0 [---] S400 gc=63 -3W Lci
Nov  1 23:41:56 sandbender kernel: [54665.005963] firewire_core: skipped
bus generations, destroying all nodes
Nov  1 23:41:57 sandbender kernel: [54665.504029] firewire_core:
rediscovered device fw0

but I don't think the camera actually works. I don't get any device for
it (I was expecting something in the logs, or a /dev/fw1 or so to
appear, am I wrong?), and coriander claims that no camera is connnected.

so: is this the right direction? should this work? Can anyone see
something obvious? How should I go on from here?

thanks  robert