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Date:      Sun, 12 Jun 2005 01:27:51 -0400
From:      Bob Johnson <bob89@bobj.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Bob Johnson <bob89@bobj.org>
Subject:   Re: PCI Firewire cards that work with 5.4R ??
Message-ID:  <200506120127.52338.bob89@bobj.org>
In-Reply-To: <200506102210.58511.bob89@bobj.org>
References:  <200506102210.58511.bob89@bobj.org>

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On Friday 10 June 2005 10:10 pm, Bob Johnson wrote:
> I need to find a PCI FireWire card that will work with FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE.
> It will be easiest for me to purchase something from Best Buy, which pretty
> much limits me to either a Dynex DX-FC103, or an Adaptec AFW-4300CS.
>

I've received no replies on this, but after some digging I found some 
additional information.

> The Dynex card uses an Agere FW323-06 Firewire chip, which is not listed as
> supported by the fwohci driver.  I can't tell what chipset the Adaptec card
> uses: it has an Adaptec paper label on it.

Agere used to be the Lucent Microelectronics division, so I assume the Agere 
FW323-06 is the essentially the same thing as the Lucent FW323, which is 
listed as supported by the fwohci driver.  Perhaps tomorrow I'll remember to 
submit a PR suggesting that the hardware list be updated to reflect the name 
change, but tonight I need to get some sleep.

I also found a posting on freebsd-firewire that said the "Adaptec FireConnect 
4300" works with FreeBSD. 

>
> Can anyone tell me if either of these cards will work with 5.4-RELEASE, or
> recommend another inexpensive PCI Firewire card?
>

It sounds like either of these will probably work with FreeBSD 5.4.

- Bob



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