[Gllug] PCMCIA FireWire 1394 pc card Linux

[Rich Walker]

Gerard van Schip <gerard at vanschip.com> writes:

> Hi guys.
>
> As my IBM Thinkpad X24 is missing a firewire port I thought I would buy myself a nice PCMCIA card
> for this, I have found several on eBay costing next to nothing but have no clue which ones will be
> supported under Linux.

They're all a bit crappy.

I bought a couple of generics from computer fairs, and need an external
PSU to run anything interesting from them.

> Anyone got a brand name of a card they can recommend?

You're looking for the chipset, if you can find out. By preference, try
a computer fair, and ask if you can test it.

cheers, Rich.

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