Firewire DVD/CDRW on Sony R505EL

I have RedHat 9 loaded (via FTP) on my laptop, but I can not seem to get it to find my CD drive that is hooked in to a docking station and connected through a firewire interface. I have done searches on the internet but it seems all the patches are for RedHat 7.3.

When I try and load ohci1394 it gives me back an error.

Most everything seems to work fine otherwise. Built-in Net, Wireless in PC-slot, X windows, all good.

Still need to get power properties working, but would like to get CD working first.

Anyone have any suggestions or success loading what I am describing?

What error do you get when you issue the command ' modprobe ohci1394 '

Do a ' lsmod ' and see if it is already loaded.

This is info related to the drive as being the 2nd cd/cdr/cdrw/dvd/dvdrw in your system.

You will need to load the sbp2 module also. Then you should be able to mount using something like this ' mount /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 '. That is if you have a soft link pointing to /dev/scd2 to /dev/cdrom2 in the /dev directory. Haven't worked with firewire for awhile. If you are still having problems I will try to help you. As far as using it as a cdrw then x-cdroast will find ( will need to run the configuration setup again ) it for you to use it as a writer. Seems like I missed something.

Then check out this site to see what other modules you might need to load.
http://www.linux1394.org/

Seems like I need to fix this and it should work...

When I issue 'modprobe ohci1394' I get the following error:
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/lib/modules/2.4.20-28.9/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from
dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.20-28.9/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.o:
insmod /lib/modules/2.4.20-28.9/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.20-28.9/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.o: insmod ohci1394 failed

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when I issue 'dmesg /lib/modules/2.4.20-28.9/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.o'
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Linux version 2.4.20-28.9 (bhcompile@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Dec 18 13:45:22 EST 2003
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009e000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009e000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d8000 - 00000000000e0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fcf0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fcf0000 - 000000000fcfc000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fcfc000 - 000000000fd00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fd00000 - 000000000fe80000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000fe80000 - 0000000010000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ff800000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fffffc00 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
254MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 65152
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 61056 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Sony Vaio laptop detected.
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1126.829 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 2247.88 BogoMIPS
Memory: 251412k/260608k available (1359k kernel code, 6704k reserved, 1004k data, 132k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1133MHz stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9aa, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 00:1f.1
Transparent bridge - Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge
PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX [8086/248c] at 00:1f.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.6 (0000 -> 0001)
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 00:1f.6. Please try using pci=biosirq.
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta3-.2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH3M: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007)
ICH3M: chipset revision 2
ICH3M: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1860-0x1867, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1868-0x186f, BIOS settings: hdcio, hddio
hda: IC25N030ATCS04-0, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03cdfe0, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 58605120 sectors (30006 MB) w/1768KiB Cache, CHS=3648/255/63, UDMA(100)
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 >
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 2048 buckets, 16Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 147k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 132k freed
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 13:50:45 Dec 18 2003
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:1d.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:02.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.0 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1800, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:1d.1
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1d.1 to 64
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1820, IRQ 9
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin C of device 00:1d.2. Please try using pci=biosirq.
usb-uhci.c: found UHCI device with no IRQ assigned. check BIOS settings!
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,3), internal journal
Adding Swap: 522072k swap-space (priority -1)
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ohci1394: $Rev: 693 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 02:02.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.11 <tigran@veritas.com>
microcode: CPU0 already at revision 29 (current=29)
microcode: freed 2048 bytes
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
ohci1394: $Rev: 693 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 02:02.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version 2.2.21-k1
Copyright (c) 2003 Intel Corporation

PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 02:08.0
e100: selftest OK.
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
e100: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection
Hardware receive checksums enabled

Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Found IRQ 3 for device 02:05.0
Yenta IRQ list 0cb0, PCI irq3
Socket status: 30000810
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x170-0x177 0x370-0x37f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: clean.
hermes.c: 4 Dec 2002 David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
orinoco.c 0.13d (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
orinoco_cs.c 0.13d (David Gibson <hermes@gibson.dropbear.id.au> and others)
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
eth1: Station identity 001f:0005:0001:0003
eth1: Looks like an Intersil firmware version 1.3.5
eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key
eth1: MAC address XXXX
eth1: Station name "Prism I"
eth1: ready
eth1: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 5, io 0x0100-0x013f
eth1: New link status: Connected (0001)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 202M
agpgart: Detected an Intel(R) 830M Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 892K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
memory : c9610280
memory : c9610300
memory : c9610380
memory : c9610400
[drm] AGP 0.99 on Intel i810 @ 0xe8000000 128MB
[drm] Initialized i830 1.3.2 20021108 on minor 0
mtrr: base(0xe8000000) is not aligned on a size(0x300000) boundary
memory : c9610500
memory : c9610580
memory : c9610600
memory : c9610680
memory : c9610700
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:02.0
PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:1d.0
Intel 810 + AC97 Audio, version 0.24, 13:50:35 Dec 18 2003
PCI: Enabling device 00:1f.5 (0000 -> 0001)
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.5 to 64
i810: Intel ICH3 found at IO 0x18c0 and 0x1c00, MEM 0x0000 and 0x0000, IRQ 9
i810_audio: Audio Controller supports 6 channels.
i810_audio: Defaulting to base 2 channel mode.
i810_audio: Resetting connection 0
ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: YMH3 (Unknown)
i810_audio: only 48Khz playback available.
i810_audio: AC'97 codec 0 supports AMAP, total channels = 2
i810_audio: drain_dac, dma timeout?
i810_audio: drain_dac, dma timeout?
ohci1394: $Rev: 693 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 02:02.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
ohci1394: Failed to allocate shared interrupt 0
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What's next?

Best Regards,

Sean

What notebook is this?

What does ' lspci ' say?

Also ControlCenter/Information/PCI shows a little more detail.

Whats in your /etc/modules.conf file?

What drivers are under /libs/modules/current kernel version/drivers/ieee1394?

What kernel are you using?

May need to compile a newer kernel.

Sony Vaio R505EL

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 04)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 42)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus (rev 02)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio (rev 02)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem (rev 02)
02:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:05.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 80)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42)


alias eth0 e100
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
alias ieee1394-controller ohci1394
alias sound-slot-0 i810_audio
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :


amdtp.o dv1394.o ieee1394.o raw1394.o video1394.o
cmp.o eth1394.o ohci1394.o sbp2.o

also...
cat modules.ieee1394map
# ieee1394 module match_flags vendor_id model_id specifier_id version
sbp2 0x0000000c 0x000000 0x000000 0x00609e 0x010483

2.4.20-28.9