From owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 1 06:28:20 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EF0816A418 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 06:28:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-firewire@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A6C613C46C for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2007 06:28:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-firewire@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IG7gu-0000rY-1H for freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:28:16 +0200 Received: from 253-184.ip.ll.net ([209.131.253.184]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:28:16 +0200 Received: from supraexpress by 253-184.ip.ll.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:28:16 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org From: User1001 Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:28:08 -0500 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 253-184.ip.ll.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070311) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: Loss of DV camera via firewire X-BeenThere: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Firewire support in FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:28:20 -0000 User1001 wrote: > Somewhere between recent FBSD-6.2 OS & kernel updates, ports updates, HAL > updates/installations - I have lost connectivity to a miniDV camera that I was > able to access and download a DV stream from, back on June 29, 2007. > > fwcontrol shows two "nodes" when the DV camera is turned on, but "fwcontrol -R" > fails to receive any DV data from the camera when it is in playback mode. > > gdvrecv is unable to "locate" the camera, whereas before it did. > > Reinstalls of gdvrecv and python2.4 have not made any difference. Ktrace is > unable to show anything useful. Making changes suggested in fwcontrol MANual > page (following) made no difference. > > sysctl hw.firewire.try_bmr=0 > fwcontrol -r > > The firewire card is the IOGEAR GUF320. Hmmm - it appears that "it is back"?!!? Perhaps it was just a loose IEEE1394 cable? Perhaps it was just a malfunctioning camera? Maybe it was just the sequence in which I initiated everything and then crossed my fingers? The camera was running off of its AC adapter so it sure wasn't a problem with power. SIGH!