hello john, please be so polite to ask the mailinglist. it is not like i'd did such a decision on my own. so if you respond to this keep it on cc, thanks.
On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 11:48:22AM -0800, john boyd wrote: > Hi, > > I'm going to be nice and politely ask you to point me to links that shows me > the steps to adding back in the previous firewire stack. It appears that I > am having similar problems like others. I'm not finding much more than > these cursory details in resolving the issue: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-kernel@lists.debian.org/msg34998.html the decision didn't go through for lenny as userspace libraries didn't catch up quickly enough. so your trouble is quite a different one. > I don't give a fig about security for this box, I just want to be able to > mount my new sata based terrabyte drive (that is in a firewire enclosure). > > The machine is a PowerMac G4 Titanium running Debian ppc Lenny. My old > smaller external firewire ide based drives mount fine, but my new external > fw enclosure with a SATA based drive on the inside fails and I only get this > in the logs with no mount or output from "fdisk -l": > > [12718.287534] ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] > GUID[001b8cc732535841] > [12718.287692] ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] > GUID[000393fffedb2a5e] this shows clearly old firewire stack. > I've tried several of the modprobe parameters with no luck. I also tried 2 > different pcmcia firewire cards (1 was a Lacie pccard that worked in OSX) > but I didn't see anything in the logs that even saw the cards. > > It's been many many years since I've built my own kernel/modules and that > was on another version of Linux altogether. Any links that help clarify > this particular process would be appreciated. The link above says something > about a "sid" repo having the kernel, but I'm not sure how that would affect > my Lenny system. indeed you can try the kernel from backports.org or from unstable they just install fine on testing. although it might just be a hardware issue of this specific box. good luck -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100304194642.ga7...@baikonur.stro.at
