Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Feb 2004 08:53:00 -0500 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: Firewire troubles with SMP kernel |
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On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 04:13:26PM -0800, Alexey Goldin wrote: > Thanks to fine people who helped me to sort out problems with my laptop > couple of months ago. This is the timeto ask for help again :-) > > Please cc: any reply to me as I am not subscribed to the list. > > Well, I know firewire with SMP is a little bit iffy. > However we managed to get it working on one computer and we hoped it > will work with other. Here is what we have instead. > > The first computer is dual Athlon-MP with Tyan mobo, firewire card is > fairly basic, we got it from > http://shop.store.yahoo.com/gooddealpc-store/139pci3p.html > We tried it with Western Digital 120GB firewire drives and with IDE > enclosures:
I'm running firewire with SMP kernels with no problems. I think the issue is you are using old drivers that may not be working with SMP. Try build the latest drivers from linux1394.org for 2.4.
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