I have installed a Firewire/USB 2.0 PCI card in my PC, a Dell. Whenever I try to use any of hte ports, USB or Firewire, nothing happens. When I attach a USB cable to one of the built in USB ports already in the PC, I have no problems getting access to that piece of hardware using it.

Do I have to mount the Firewire/USB card manually? I have installed Suse 10.0 and had actually thought that the installation process took care of all that for me. Am I wrong?

If so, what do I need to do to make sure that I have access to those ports every time?

Thanks for your help.

what is the make and model of the card
post the output of:
lspci (that is Lspci with a lowercase L)

Went into Su mode and ran lspci and got the following output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 12)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 12)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 12)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 12)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 12)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 12)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200] (rev a2)
02:07.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)
02:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
02:09.0 Multimedia controller: C-Cube Microsystems Cinemaster C 3.0 DVD Decoder (rev 01)
02:0a.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 61)
02:0a.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 61)
02:0a.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 63)
02:0a.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 46)


It was, I think a generic Firewire/USB card but, if I'm reading the output properly, it has a VIA chipset.

Now what do I do?

what is the output of
dmesg
do you get any entries in your messages log file when you plug a device in?
what kernel version are you running?

When I plugin a device with either USB or Firewire into the PCI card, I don't get any messages on the screen. Where would I find the log file?

The output of the dmesg is the following:


Linux version 2.6.13-15-default (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003ff77000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ff77000 - 000000003ff79000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003ff79000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
127MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000fe710
On node 0 totalpages: 262007
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 32631 pages, LIFO batch:15
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL ) @ 0x000fd560
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL 4300 0x00000006 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd574
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELL 4300 0x00000006 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd5a8
ACPI: SSDT (v001 DELL st_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0xfffe5d6b
ACPI: MADT (v001 DELL 4300 0x00000006 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd61c
ACPI: BOOT (v001 DELL 4300 0x00000006 ASL 0x00000061) @ 0x000fd678
ACPI: DSDT (v001 DELL dt_ex 0x00001000 MSFT 0x0100000d) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
ACPI: local apic disabled
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: DELL Product ID: Dim 4300 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #0 15:0 APIC version 20
I/O APIC #1 Version 32 at 0xFEC00000.
Processors: 1
Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 40000000:bec00000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x317 selinux=0 resume=/dev/hdb2 splash=silent
bootsplash: silent mode.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Detected 1694.815 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 1033064k/1048028k available (2028k kernel code, 14116k reserved, 700k data, 204k init, 130524k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3393.04 BogoMIPS (lpj=6786083)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Disabled at boot.
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1700MHz stepping 0a
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 1719k freed
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found!
not found!
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0e08)
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfbece, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050408
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] segment is 0
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 15)
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
TC classifier action (bugs to netdev@vger.kernel.org cc hadi@cyberus.ca)
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x800-0x85f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0xc00-0xc7f has been reserved
pnp: 00:0a: ioport range 0x860-0x8ff could not be reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: fc000000-fdffffff
PREFETCH window: e8000000-f7ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
IO window: e000-efff
MEM window: fe100000-fe4fffff
PREFETCH window: 40000000-400fffff
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
Simple Boot Flag at 0x7a set to 0x1
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1133308530.444:1): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf0000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 6144k, total 131072k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=1
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:ea90
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 76011 bytes,<6>...found (1024x768, 12703 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 127x44
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBD,PNP0f13:MOU] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: PC Speaker
md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 3.38
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
VBTN PCI0 USB0 USB1 PCI1 KBD
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 204k freed
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ICH2: chipset revision 18
ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC WD1600BB-00GUA0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC WD400BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2
input: PS2++ Logitech Mouse on isa0060/serio1
hdb: max request size: 128KiB
hdb: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hdb: cache flushes not supported
hdb: hdb1 hdb2
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4082B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1])
hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Attempting manual resume
swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
ReiserFS: hda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda2: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: hda2: journal params: device hda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda2: checking transaction log (hda2)
ReiserFS: hda2: Using r5 hash to sort names
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Adding 1052216k swap on /dev/hda1. Priority:-1 extents:1
Adding 1476208k swap on /dev/hdb2. Priority:-2 extents:1
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7, using FIFO [PCSPP,TRISTATE,COMPAT,ECP]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c036b920(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8187 buckets, 65496 max) - 248 bytes per conntrack
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[D] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.2: irq 11, io base 0x0000ff80
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
hw_random: RNG not detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 9
PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.4[C] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.4 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1f.4: irq 9, io base 0x0000ff60
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected an Intel i845 Chipset.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe0000000
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:02:0a.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:02:0a.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:02:0a.0: irq 11, io base 0x0000eca0
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 3
PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.1[B] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
uhci_hcd 0000:02:0a.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:02:0a.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:02:0a.1: irq 3, io base 0x0000ec80
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.4.8-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:07.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xfe3ff000, irq 3, MAC addr 000:B7:17:B6:AA
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.2[C] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ehci_hcd 0000:02:0a.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:02:0a.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci_hcd 0000:02:0a.2: irq 10, io mem 0xfe3fdc00
ehci_hcd 0000:02:0a.2: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ohci1394: $Rev: 1299 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0a.3[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[fe3fd000-fe3fd7ff] Max Packet=[2048]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
gameport: CS46xx Gameport is pci0000:02:08.0/gameport0, speed 1125kHz
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[0011066645673ad0]
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 2 devices found
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex
NET: Registered protocol family 17
nvidia: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
NVRM: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-7676 Fri Jul 29 12:58:54 PDT 2005
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [VBTN]
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14 <tigran@veritas.com>
microcode: CPU0 updated from revision 0x9 to 0x14, date = 07162002
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver v1.14 unregistered
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=105 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=6 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=85
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=105 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=7 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=85
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=105 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=8 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=85
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=224.0.0.251 LEN=105 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=9 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=5353 DPT=5353 LEN=85
atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x81 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e001 <keycode>' to make it known.

look in /var/log/messages

if you type:
tail -f /var/log/messages
in the console, then plug in the device you should see the new messages on the screen.
then press ctrl+c to exit that mode

Here is what I get when I plugged in the Firewire (iPod):

Nov 30 01:14:50 linux kernel: ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
Nov 30 01:14:56 linux kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x81 on isa0060/serio0).
Nov 30 01:14:56 linux kernel: atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e001 <keycode>' to make it known.
Nov 30 01:15:02 linux su: (to root) silkmaze on /dev/pts/1
Nov 30 01:15:57 linux kernel: atkbd.c: Unknown key released (translated set 2, code 0x81 on isa0060/serio0).
Nov 30 01:15:57 linux kernel: atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e001 <keycode>' to make it known.
Nov 30 01:16:23 linux kernel: ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023
Nov 30 01:16:23 linux kernel: ieee1394: Node suspended: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[000a2700021d300d]
Nov 30 01:16:33 linux kernel: ieee1394: Node resumed: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[000a2700021d300d]
Nov 30 01:16:33 linux kernel: ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023


Now for the USB:

Nov 30 01:17:49 linux kernel: usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
Nov 30 01:17:49 linux kernel: usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Nov 30 01:17:49 linux kernel: usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Nov 30 01:17:49 linux kernel: usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
Nov 30 01:17:49 linux kernel: usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Nov 30 01:17:49 linux kernel: usb 4-2: device descriptor read/64, error -71
Nov 30 01:17:49 linux kernel: usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
Nov 30 01:17:50 linux kernel: usb 4-2: device not accepting address 4, error -71
Nov 30 01:17:50 linux kernel: usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
Nov 30 01:17:50 linux kernel: usb 4-2: device not accepting address 5, error -71
Nov 30 01:17:53 linux kernel: usb 5-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Nov 30 01:17:53 linux kernel: SCSI subsystem initialized
Nov 30 01:17:53 linux kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Nov 30 01:17:53 linux kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Nov 30 01:17:53 linux kernel: usb-storage: device found at 3
Nov 30 01:17:53 linux kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Nov 30 01:17:53 linux kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
Nov 30 01:17:53 linux kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Nov 30 01:17:58 linux kernel: Vendor: Apple Model: iPod Rev: 1.53
Nov 30 01:17:58 linux kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Nov 30 01:17:58 linux kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete
Nov 30 01:18:00 linux kernel: sda: Spinning up disk.....ready
Nov 30 01:18:00 linux kernel: SCSI device sda: 78126048 512-byte hdwr sectors (40001 MB)
Nov 30 01:18:00 linux kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Nov 30 01:18:00 linux kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 33 00 00 00
Nov 30 01:18:00 linux kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 30 01:18:00 linux kernel: SCSI device sda: 78126048 512-byte hdwr sectors (40001 MB)
Nov 30 01:18:00 linux kernel: sda: Write Protect is off
Nov 30 01:18:00 linux kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 33 00 00 00
Nov 30 01:18:00 linux kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through
Nov 30 01:18:00 linux kernel: sda: sda1 sda2
Nov 30 01:18:00 linux kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Nov 30 01:18:00 linux kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0
Nov 30 01:18:01 linux hal-subfs-mount[6253]: SYMLINKS:: disk/by-id/usb-Apple_iPod_0000001D300D disk/by-path/usb-0000001D300D:0:0:0
Nov 30 01:18:01 linux hal-subfs-mount[6253]: MOUNT_POINT:: /media/ipod
Nov 30 01:18:01 linux hal-subfs-mount[6253]: MOUNTPOINT:: /media/ipod
Nov 30 01:18:01 linux kernel: subfs 0.9
Nov 30 01:18:01 linux hal-subfs-mount[6253]: Collected mount options and Called(0) /bin/mount -t subfs -o fs=floppyfss,sync,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,utf8=true /dev/sda2 "/media/ipod"
Nov 30 01:18:01 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'mount'
Nov 30 01:18:04 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'umount'
Nov 30 01:18:04 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'mount'
Nov 30 01:18:07 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'umount'
Nov 30 01:18:17 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'mount'
Nov 30 01:18:20 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'umount'
Nov 30 01:18:20 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'mount'
Nov 30 01:18:23 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'umount'
Nov 30 01:18:24 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'mount'
Nov 30 01:18:27 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'umount'
Nov 30 01:18:27 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'mount'
Nov 30 01:18:30 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'umount'
Nov 30 01:18:32 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'mount'
Nov 30 01:18:35 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'umount'
Nov 30 01:18:35 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'mount'
Nov 30 01:18:38 linux udevd[2305]: get_netlink_msg: no ACTION in payload found, skip event 'umount'

Ok,So now the USB works, that's fine, I would like to have the Firewire working, mainly because it's faster thatn USB, but also because I paid for it. :-)

what device are you pluggin in

i have a 3G iPod, 40GB drive. It has a cable with both USB and Firewire. When I plugin the USB I can access it via Konqueror, clicking on "Storage Media". When I plugin hte Firewire connector, nothing happens. I can sit watching the "Storage Media" icons in Konqueror, till the cows come home, and nothing happens.

If the firewire would work then I would attach an external HDD on to it. I prefer Firewire to USB for external HDD's because it is faster.

i don't have any firewire devices to help you test through this, but from i have read and seen you need to have firewire support either in the kernel or as a module, you can check out this site:
http://www.linux1394.org/
and google:
how to firewire linux

Thank you. I'll check out both those ideas/suggestions and let you know how I end up. :-)