On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 10:33 -1000, Susemail wrote:
On Saturday 04 February 2006 04:22, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 13:32 +0000, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:
Hi,
Am running OSS 10 on a dv1000 series laptop and need to buy an external hard drive. The machine has a firewire port but how can I tell whether Suse has detected it when I don't possess any firewire stuff to test it with?
Any suggestions as to any particular drive that might work well with suse?
To see if linux detects the firewire port have a look through /var/log/boot.msg and look for IEEE-1394 or just 1394. That will be the firewire port. You may also need to manually insert the modules but when you plug in the firewire device that should happen automagically by the system.
I tried that. My firewire port is not listed in the boot.log. I have a firewire drive plugged but it doesn't show up in the system. The IEEE host controller shows up in the Yast hardware module.
What commands can I use to find out what's wrong?
As stated earlier you may need to insert the modules manually. modprobe ieee1394 and then dmesg and see if the device shows up. You may also have to modprobe raw1394. YMMV -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998