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On 06/16/2012 03:25 PM, Danni Coy wrote:

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> What it seems to be impossible to do is to find a laptop with a descent

> firewire chipset. I looked for ages when making my latest purchase and

> everything currently had either ricoh or jmicron. The laptop I got has

> jmicron and it locks up within a few seconds of connecting my firewire

> soundcard. Since then I have opted for a NI Komplete Audio 6 which has a

> reputation for "just works" on linux. It is also completely bus powered

> which means I can record without requiring mains power at all.

Here's what lspci reports for my laptop's Firewire port:
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire

II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 80)
> Desktops I don't think are such a problem as you can firewire cards with

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> which ever chipset you need in pci and pci express flavours.

If I can't make my laptop Firewire port work, I might try a PCI adapter

in a slimline desktop machine I'm thinking of using instead.
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David

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