Firewire 1.0 and Fedora 8?

[martinellison]

Does anyone know whether Fedora 8 supports Firewire 1.0?

Firewire seems to come in 1.0 and 1.1 flavours; Fedora Core up to and including 6 supported Firewire 1.0 but Fedora 7 took this away. The context was a potential privilege escalation attack as using the old drivers required opening some raw devices to the user account. This is of little risk exposure to me as I am the only user of my system anyway.

There were various fixes (see other posts on this forum) but on a default install of Fedora 7 Firewire 1.0 did not work. I think Fedora 7 supported Firewire 1.1 but this was of no use to me as my hardware seems to be 1.0.

So does anyone know whether this has been fixed?

[sej7278]

i didn't even know there was a version for firewire except 400 or 800.

anyway, its broken in f7 for me, is it fixed (or rolled back to the old module like atrpms) in f8?

[RahulSundaram]

Originally Posted by martinellison

Does anyone know whether Fedora 8 supports Firewire 1.0?

Firewire seems to come in 1.0 and 1.1 flavours; Fedora Core up to and including 6 supported Firewire 1.0 but Fedora 7 took this away. The context was a potential privilege escalation attack as using the old drivers required opening some raw devices to the user account. This is of little risk exposure to me as I am the only user of my system anyway.

There were various fixes (see other posts on this forum) but on a default install of Fedora 7 Firewire 1.0 did not work. I think Fedora 7 supported Firewire 1.1 but this was of no use to me as my hardware seems to be 1.0.

So does anyone know whether this has been fixed?

Refer the discussions at

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg00005.html

[sej7278]

so basically if jarod hasn't finished ochi 1.0 after lunch we're screwed as f8 didn't get support for the old system compiled in - could it be added to the next kernel?

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

The old system has a number of bugs. The new firewire layer from Red Hat has already been merged in the kernel and has been the default from Fedora 7 onwards and there are some user space issues that are being fixed. If you need more information, ask in fedora-kernel list instead

http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listin...ra-kernel-list

[martinellison]

I was hoping someone would know and be able to tell us... I mean, it's a known bug in the previous release; I would have thought that they would mention it in the release notes, or at least tell us somewhere whether it had been fixed.

And Rahul, I don't want to get on another mailing list. If they have a forum where I could post to a specific thread, then I can do this; but I don't want my mailbox full of things that I am not going to read.

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

Developers are rarely in forums. So no, I don't see a alternative.

[bowens44]

So I guess the answer is 'still broken'. How unfortunate.