Re: Firewire camera and PCMCIA card under Debian

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

ali shahrokni wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to connect a unibrain firewire camera to my T40 thinkpad 
> using a PCMCIA firecard. I am running debian testing and kernel 2.6.15.
> The card is detected and the output of dmeg follows but the camera 
> doesn't even turn on and nothing happens when I connect it to the card! 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Cheers,
> Ali

Ali --

I looked at http://www.linux1394.org/. Their "compatibility list" puts 
the Fire-i digital camera and the Fire-i400 both in the "Works Great" 
class. Both use ohci1394, which your dmesg output below says you are 
loading.

The Unibrain page on "detailed product specs" mentions the possibility 
of the camera needing a separate DC input to work. It says:

"Fire-i™ Digital Camera is provided with a DC power input jack 
connector, that can be used when the FireWire connection does not 
provide DC power. This happens typically:

     "* when the FireWire bus is converted to a 4-pin connection
     "* when, in 6-pin, no powering device is present, even from the 
FireWire interface. This is the case when using CardBus FireWire 
adapters or on some laptops with built-in interface"

The "doesn't even turn on" part of your message makes me suspect that 
you have this power problem ... not a Linux problem as such but a 
hardware problem. Only a guess, though.

If that's it, there is info on using DC adapters at 
http://www.unibrain.com/Products/VisionImg/tSpec_Fire_i_DC.htm

> 
> ieee1394: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
> video1394: Installed video1394 module
> usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
> pccard: card ejected from slot 1
> ieee1394: Node removed: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[0814435800000528]
> ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
> ohci1394: fw-host0: Set PHY Reg timeout [0xffffffff/0x00004000/100]
> pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 1
> PCI: Enabling device 0000:07:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:07:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 11 (level, 
> low) -> IRQ 11
> PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:07:00.0 to 64
> ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11]  
> MMIO=[c4004000-c40047ff]  Max Packet=[2048]
> eth1394: eth1: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
> ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023]  GUID[0814435800000528]
> 
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