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List:       linux1394-user
Subject:    Re: Kenel Patch for ohci1394 to make nVidia nForce2 Firewire work
From:       Dan Dennedy <dan () dennedy ! org>
Date:       2003-02-24 14:15:44
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Thanks for the help. However, can you prepare a more concise patch? The
one you sent contains the differences we already have. Right now, our
subversion service is down, but there might be a tag for the 2.4.21
prepatch, to run a svn diff on. 

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 06:24, Nandakishore S wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>    I recently purchased a Shuttle SN41G2 box, which uses the nVidia nForce2 
> chipset, which has in addition to all other things, a 1394 function. I have 
> installed the Mandrake 9.1 beta-3 on this. I could make all the other stuff 
> like the nVidia 3D graphics driver and nforce "nvnet" ethernet work (no 
> major issues till now!), but my firewire backup disk (which uses an Oxford 
> chipset) would not get recognised on pluging in.
> 
>   Thanks to Johannes Deisenhofer's webpage,
> http://home.t-online.de/home/Johannes.Deisenhofer/nforce2linux.html
>   and this thread:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1469470&forum_id=5387
> I came to know that it is a problem with the ohci driver (I was also faced 
> with the same problem as described very well in the thread above). I never 
> had much experience with kernel driver hacking, but since I needed the 
> backup drive to work with the sbp2 driver, I decided to try my luck. With 
> some effort, the ports are now getting recognized, and my hard drive is 
> visible as /dev/sda. No troubles so far.
> 
>   Please find the patch for this attached with this mail. I will also try to 
> make it available on my webpage. The patch is against 2.4.21-pre4-ac6 with 
> the latest ieee1394 trunk I could get from the svn. I am sure that there is 
> a better hack, but for now I am happy with my backup drive working well.
> 
> Thanks,
>    ~Nandu




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