Re: SBP-2 support

[Jurgen K. <GTM...@in...>]

Hi,

You probably have one of those VAIOs with a non OHCI compliant chipset onboard.
Maybe you
can check which part you actually have.

About the sbp2_1394.o part: yes you have to manually copy that to the module
directory.

Greetings,

Jurgen

Katsuhiro Inoue wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I had installed the IEEE1394 patch to my kernel-2.2.18, to make my 40G
> i.Link HDD (Sony PCVA-HD04 only sold in Japan) work with Linux. However,
> there were a few things I cannot get over it.
>
> (Sorry that it seems a basic problem with module installation but I need
> your help!)
>
> I used RedHat Distribution 7.0. I already removed gcc and ln -s kgcc gcc.
>
> There were two problems:
>
> 1 - One problems is module loading for ohci1394. It said that "no operable
> Ohci1394 cards found". This seems simply meaning that my i.Link cards built
> in my notebook (Sony VAIO PCG-Z505FX made in Japan) was not detected by the
> module. Is it a fundamental problem or is there anyone who could finally
> solve this problem?
>
> 2 - Another one is unpacking SBP-2 driver which I got from
> http://firewire.zawa.com/sbp2/ . Steps I took were:
> - downloaded sbp2_1394_122300.tar.gz and unpacked it
> - moves all file into /usr/src/linux/drivers/ieee1394
> - make -f Makefile.sbp2 clean, make -f Makefile.sbp2 (generated sbp2_1394.o)
> - make dep, make bzlilo, make modules, make modules_install
> That last command (make modules_install) did not copy the sbp2_1394.o into
> /lib/modules/2.2.18/ieee1394. Is it OK that I move this .o file into
> /lib/modules/2.2.18/ieee1394 directory manually?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Katsuhiro Inoue
>
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