DLink DFW-500 card works

[Alastair M. <ala...@ww...>]

Hi,

  If anyone's keeping track of these things, the D-Link DFW-500 FireWire
Adapter Card works OK.  It's an OHCI card, so it ought to, but I had to 
wrestle with my software configuration a bit (my fault).   This card is
fairly recent and is showing up in places like Best Buy (a consumer 
electronics/appliances chain) for under $80.

  The software problems were really just a matter of old software.  I'm
running SuSE 6.4 which is a 2.2.14 kernel and comes with the ieee1394 
patches applied and modules built -- the catch is that they're several
months old and don't work well with the more recent versions of dvgrab
and testlibraw that I downloaded.
Yesterday I pulled all the latest stuff out of CVS and rebuilt the 
modules (and now I see there's even a later version of OHCI) and
testlibraw now correctly reports the node count.    I also tried gscanbus
and could successfully see my camcorder (Sony TRV103)  attach and 
disconnect, and I could control it via the gscanbus GUI. (I did have a 
problem with dvgrab -- the downloaded binary complained about something
being out of synch and needing relinking, and I got compile errors when
I tried to recompile, but I need to check my include paths etc.)


  Thanks guys, keep up the good work.  And now that I have known-working 
platform I can start to contribute something back (mind, I'm more of an 
applications guy than a driver hacker.)

 -- Alastair