After reviewing what others have tried to get isight working on linux, I thought to give another round.
List of my modules Module Size Used by video1394 20620 0 raw1394 34904 0 snd_pcm_oss 69864 0 snd_mixer_oss 23232 1 snd_pcm_oss uinput 7808 1 ipv6 310340 14 eth1394 24392 0 ohci1394 41924 1 video1394 ieee1394 447880 4 video1394,raw1394,eth1394,ohci1394 yenta_socket 23264 0 pcmcia_core 73140 1 yenta_socket snd_powermac 44848 0 snd_pcm 119768 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_powermac snd_page_alloc 13480 1 snd_pcm snd_timer 29348 1 snd_pcm snd 67864 5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_powermac,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 11396 1 snd radeon 155032 2 uninorth_agp 8544 1 agpgart 41932 2 uninorth_agp airport 7840 0 orinoco 53364 1 airport hermes 15104 2 airport,orinoco I also did mknod /dev/video1394 c 172 0 mknod /dev/raw1394 c 171 0 but when I rebooted... they were not back in the /dev. udev is not running at boot. Accessing a firewire drive is no problem and I have ieee1394 modules compiled in the kernel. -adam