DLink DFW-500 card works
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From: Alastair M. <ala...@ww...> - 2000-04-14 16:02:02
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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 |