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jverge

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March 3rd, 2005 15:00

Help with/Firewire on Redhat Enterprise 4.0

I recently installed RH Enterprise 4 AS on my Precision 470 and I am trying to get my firewire card to work. It is seen with hardware browser but I do not see an external drive when attached to the card.

When I was running 3.4 AS I was able to get the card to work with by installing ieee1394-2.4.25-4.tar.gz from the Dell Web Site. Attempts to install this on 4.0 don't work because of failed dependencies (it needs kernel-source but that package is not included with 4.0).

Any ideas? Thanks.

jverge

4 Posts

March 7th, 2005 18:00

Yeah I already installed the kernel source following those directions. The problem is that the system doesn't have a package called "kernel-source" installed.

nedoren

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March 7th, 2005 18:00

If you want to install the kernel source, follow the directions in the RHEL 4 release notes. Google "RHEL 4 Release Notes" (without quotes) and click the first link it shows. Doesn't answer why your current ieee1394 support isn't working, though. Neall

nedoren

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March 7th, 2005 20:00

Well, it appears that package is RHEL 3 specific. You can wait for Dell to provide the promised support for RHEL 4... or:

If you go into the kernel source tree you downloaded, copy the right config from ./configs into ../.config, and do a "make xconfig," it appears IEEE1394 support is not enabled by default. You can enable it, do a "make modules" and "make modules install" and give that a try. Just a thought, given I haven't tried it (with this module). In other words, do your homework on building kernel modules and give that a try, using the Red Hat source. Interesting that they turned that off in RHEL 4, when it was enabled in RHEL 3. Neall

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