From owner-freebsd-firewire Wed Nov 6 10: 0:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3513537B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:00:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from InterJet.elischer.org (12-232-206-8.client.attbi.com [12.232.206.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D1E443E3B for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:00:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA01127; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:54:37 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:54:37 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Darryl Okahata Cc: Eric Anderson , FreeBSD-Firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Firewire info? In-Reply-To: <200211061748.JAA12077@mina.soco.agilent.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Eric Anderson wrote: > > > Here are some simple questions to start with: > > How about: "Which firewire interface cards are supported?" > > If firewire is really as good as it sounds, people will want to > know which cards work, and which don't. > > [ I've been following this list, and I haven't seem much mention of > desktop interface cards -- most of the talk seems to be about laptop > interfaces. Do desktop cards work, and if so, which ones? I'm sure > people would want to know, for example, if the Adaptec card works (I > don't know, but I'd be willing to bet, "no", given Adaptec's > propensity for nondisclosure). ] Almost any card that follows the ohci interface will work as the standard specifies what the hardware interface looks like.. I use the indigita ohci card, but there is a linux page that lists a hundred or so cards that use that interface. Usually they use one of several chipsets that implement the OHCI interface.. mine uses a lucent chipset. In addition there are several from TI and all the other usual suspects.. > > -- > Darryl Okahata > darrylo@soco.agilent.com > > DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not > constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or > of the little green men that have been following him all day. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message