Re: firewire ExpressCard recommendation

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 11 January 2009 15:14:47 Stefan Richter wrote:
>> Carl Karsten wrote:
>>> I want to run 2 DV cams into my laptop.  laptop has one fw port.
>>>
>>> There was only one at my local store, and linux doesn't see it at all
>>> (nothing in lspci, dmesg, syslog)  The only way I know it works is
>>> because it worked in a mac, which gave me this PCI ID:
>>> [197b:2380] FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: JMicron Technologies, Inc.
>>> Device
>>>
>>> So, anyone have one they like?
>> I have no idea what I'm talking about, but this sounds more like a
>> problem with the kernel's PCIe hotplug support rather than a problem
>> with the particular card.
> 
> Yep, that's what it sounds like to me too. I know my own laptop w/an 
> expresscard slot requires having the pciehp driver loaded (which doesn't 
> happen automatically in many kernels) before cards properly hotplug. The card 
> itself should be no different than the pcie jmicron cards I've got, which work 
> fine (at least w/the newer stack, not sure I've tried them w/the old one).
> 

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ExpressCard says  "sudo modprobe pciehp"
but of course I am making life hard for myself and running jaunty, so I get
FATAL: Module pciehp not found.
Because: [not amd64].

I'll try a live CD sometime and see how it goes.

jmicron - got a URL of one for sale?  (google kept telling me how to use it.)

Carl K




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