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On 31/08/2011 09:32, Atte André Jensen wrote:

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> On 08/31/2011 09:08 AM, david wrote:

>

>> I've never seen a netbook with Firewire, though, I kind of doubt you're

>> going to find any. I'd go with the Thinkpad if the built-in Firewire is

>> supported by Linux. If the builtin FW isn't supported, you might be able

>> to use a Firewire expansion card in the Thinkpad's slot.

>

> I called the company, that has the Thinkpad X61s for sale. He couldn't

> say anything about the firewire chip (and google didn't know), but my

> gut feeling tells me it's gonna work, otherwise I have 2 weeks to return

> it if there's any problems...

> 

i have one of these boxes running nicely with debian.

as i do not using firewire much i cannot say much more than that it

worked when i tested it after buying.

lspci says

05:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller

(rev 04)
i can quite recommend this box and thinkpads in general,

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X61s etc. has an exhaustive list

of hardware built into these boxes.
hth,
tee

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