Installing a 2 Port Fire Wire Express Card in Ubuntu 10,04 LTS

[Franz Waldmüller]

Hi Jaime,

Am 2010-12-11 14:55, schrieb jaimedr:
> Its does not recognice any device (externad hardrive and firewire
> interfase),
>
> Jaime D.
>
>
> 2010/12/10 James Tappin<sjt at star.sr.bham.ac.uk>
>
>> On Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:12:28 -0500
>> jaimedr<jaimedr at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>> J>  My name is Jaime. I am trying to install a Startech 2 Port Firewire
>> Express
>> J>  Card in my Ubuntu 10,04 LTS.
>> J>
>> J>  There is not many information on Google.
>>
>> For most if not all FW cards the procedure is pretty simple:
>> 1) Plug the card into the computer
>> 2) Plug a device into the FW socket
>> 3) Use it
>>
take a look at this link.
The firewire interface enables direct access to the memory. This is a 
security risk and you have to enable it yourself. But it is pretty easy, 
check out this link:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firewire#Ubuntu%2010.04%20(Lucid%20Lynx)%20and%2010.10%20(Maverick%20Meerkat)

finally add all users which should access the firewire devices to the 
group video.

I hope this helps.
Franz