Via Vt6307 Ieee 1394

[rbeck]

I have recently acquired an Asus P4P800E Deluxe motherboard-based system. I've gotten everything but the IEEE 1394 to work. The chipset on this mobo is the VIA VT6307.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

[rbeck]

Everything is working now. I read the loadable kernel module HOWTO and identified that the required modules were loaded.

The symptom was that I couldn't access my video camera in Kino. The real problem was that only root could write to /dev/raw1394. A quick "chmod 666" fixed it.

[CrystalCowboy]

I've got a Soltek Qbic EQ3704, the mobo is the SL-B7C-FGR, and the IEEE1394 is handled by the Via VT6307.

I'm at FC2 with the 2.6.8-1.521 kernel.

The IEEE1394 doesn't seem to be working. modules ieee1394 and ohci1394 do not load by default. When I plug in an external 1394 disk it is not recognized. I was thinking it might be a driver issue, but if it works for you that must not be so.

[rbeck]

I haven't loaded FC2 on this machine yet. Have you tried to manually loaded the drivers?

Sorry I'm not much help.

[CrystalCowboy]

Yes, I did "modprobe ohci1394", which loaded the ieee1394 and ohci1394 modules. Still didn't see the disk. I tried "modprobe sbp2". (This definitely should be unnecessary). Still didn't see the disk.

All I can think to try is more testing to make sure it's not the cable and that the disk mounts on other machines. This was all true ~ a week ago, but what else can I try?

The disk gets recognized & mounted just fine with USB2.0.

No FC2? Are you still at FC1, or what?

[taylor65]

firewire works in both FC1 and FC2. along with 'modprobe ohci1394', you need 2 more modprobe commands. Do a search on this site to find the other 2 lines.

[rbeck]

Sorry, yes that machine is still on FC1. I've been hesitant to install FC2 on a Asus P4P800E mobo because of the issues I've read about.

[CrystalCowboy]

I've verified that it's not a hardware problem by running Knoppic 3.6 from a LiveCD. (but it doesn't have the via-velocity driver for my ethernet; oh well)

modprobe ohci1394 is sufficent on all the other FC2 machines I've configured. That automatically loads ieee1394 as a prerequisite for ohci1394. sbp2 should load automatically when the device is recognized (which never happens on this machine under FC2). Even if I load sbp2 manually with a modprobe, it still doesn't work.

It appears to me that support for the VT6307 chip is broken under kernel 2.6.

[CrystalCowboy]

Update: I have now installed FC3 with kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3. FireWire works fine now.