[techtalk] s501 laptop, redhat 7.3 & getting iLink to work

[Tania Morell]

Hi,

I'm having a bit of trouble getting redhat 7.3 to recognize my ieee1394 port 
on my satellite s501 laptop.

I've recompiled my kernel to include ieee support, I have a 20gb firewire 
drive connected to this port and things set up as follows:

[lsmod]
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
. . .   <skipping irrelevant modules>
sbp2                      16864   0
video1394              17028   0  (unused)
raw1394                 8336   0  (unused)
ohci1394               18112   1  [video1394]
ieee1394               37096   0  [sbp2 video1394 raw1394 ohci1394]
. . .  <skipping irrelevant modules>


[rescan-scsi-bus.sh]
[root at shithead installs]# ./rescan-scsi-bus.sh
Host adapter 0 (ide-scsi) found.
Host adapter 2 (sbp2) found.
Host adapter 1 (usb-storage-0) found.
Scanning for device 0 0 0 0 ...
OLD: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
      Vendor: MATSHITA Model: UJDA730 DVD/CDRW Rev: 1.00
      Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Scanning for device 1 0 0 0 ...
OLD: Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
      Vendor: TEAC     Model: FD-05PUB         Rev: 1026
      Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
0 new device(s) found.
0 device(s) removed.
[root at shithead installs]#


[dmesg]
[root at shithead installs]# dmesg | grep 1394
ohci1394: $Revision: 1.80 $ Ben Collins <bcollins at debian.org>
ohci1394_0: Runaway loop while stopping context...
ohci1394_0: Runaway loop while stopping context...
ohci1394_0: Runaway loop while stopping context...
ohci1394_0: Runaway loop while stopping context...
ohci1394_0: Runaway loop while stopping context...
ohci1394_0: Runaway loop while stopping context...
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 165.165 (PCI): IRQ=[11]  MMIO=[fce00000-fce00800]  Max 
Packet=[65536]
ohci1394_0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
video1394: Installed video1394 module
ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
scsi2 : IEEE-1394 SBP-2 protocol driver
ohci1394_0: Unrecoverable error, shutting down card!
ohci1394_0: Runaway loop while stopping context...
ohci1394_0: Runaway loop while stopping context...
ohci1394_0: Runaway loop while stopping context...
ohci1394_0: Runaway loop while stopping context...
ohci1394_0: Runaway loop while stopping context...
ohci1394_0: Runaway loop while stopping context...
Call Trace: [<e090ba3d>] remove_card [ohci1394] 0xcd
[root at shithead installs]#

[testlibraw]
[root at shithead installs]# testlibraw
couldn't get handle: No such file or directory
This probably means that you don't have raw1394 support in the kernel or that
you haven't loaded the raw1394 module.
[root at shithead installs]#

I installed gscanbus but it will error out when i try to run it with the above 
(couldn't get handle) error.

this is where I am stuck now.  The above info is for all I can get from my 
machine..    raw1394 is installed and loaded as you can see from the above 
lsmod.     so the question is, how can i find out why testlibraw can't  "get 
a handle"?

I have already read everything at http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/  and 
searched several archives for clues but have tried all leads without positive 
results.

-T