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>> Firewire support works
>> fine. Support for firewire was only removed from the GENERIC kernel
>> configuration file, so all he needs to do is put those lines into his
>> kernel configuration file and rebuild his kernel.
>
>> Also nonsense all he needs to do is
>>
>> kldload /boot/kernel/firewire.ko
>> or
>> echo 'firewire_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf
>> and reboot

Also: is fw800 support included here as well, or do I have to do 
something special for that?