How does "lspci -v" show the controller? The PCI IDs look like from the Texas Instruments TSB43AB** family.
The messages ohci1394: fw-host0: Get PHY Reg timeout [0x00000000/0x00000000/100] indicate that the drivers were unable to perform the last steps of initialization. For now I don't know why. What if you load the new alternative drivers instead of the old ones? According to your lspci, the new ones are installed in parallel already. The new drivers were quite buggy in kernel 2.6.24 though. # modprobe -r ohci1394 # modprobe firewire-ohci -- ieee1394 port not recognized https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/329277 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs