IEEE1394 support in Debian 12.4

[jpaulb]

I am planning to switch my Video editing work station from Linux Mint to Debian 12. The old version of LM I have has lost support for IEEE1394 which is required to download videos from DV cams. How is this possible with Debian 12.4?

[CwF]

support for IEEE1394

Are you asking about a package you use, or about system wide general hardware support - which seems intact?

[jpaulb]

At the moment I would say both. I have a FireWire adaptor installed on a Lenovo D30. I have an older Sony DV camcorder and a half dozen tapes that require downloading. I haven't done this in about 6 years and I think it was with Ubuntu Studio 16. Since that time FireWire support has diminished.

[CwF]

It seems hardware support is still present but I can't speak to user software.

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$  lspci -nn | grep IEEE
0a:02.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments TSB43AB22A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link) [iOHCI-Lynx] [104c:8023]

$  lspci -nvkd :8023
0a:02.0 0c00: 104c:8023 (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
	Subsystem: 15d9:062c
	Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18, NUMA node 0
	Memory at dfa04000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
	Memory at dfa00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
	Kernel modules: firewire_ohci

[jpaulb]

Thank.
Maybe someone will know.

[FreewheelinFrank]

Found this at the Mint forum:

It seems that Linux firewire support has languished over the last few years and the kernel modules were deprecated. So it stopped working in Mint 20 and its Ubuntu 20.04 base. However it seems to have been taken up again, but you'll need a 6,5 oem kernel.

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic. ... 7#p2399517

[jpaulb]

lspci -nn | grep IEEE

nothing???

I have a firewire port on the front of the D30 and it did work a few years ago

hostnamectl:
Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-174-lowlatency wonder if this is the issue

[CwF]

Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-174-lowlatency wonder if this is the issue

I have a clumsy reply, a note in my herder.tk for a future search box query...

#check current kernel features;$ ls /boot/ yadayada....x.x.x-1-0.amd64 $ less /boot/config-x.x.x-1-0.amd64 > kern-opt $ grep (--ignore-case) something kern-opt

translation:
find kernel name string with ls
create text file of kernel options
open and search or grep the file...

a random 6.1.x has 17 'IEEE' references... all I got at the moment.

[Aki]

Hello,
In this Lenovo pamphlet the FireWire port is not listed.

[jpaulb]

Hello,
In this Lenovo pamphlet the FireWire port is not listed.

I notices that.
On the front panel left to right is there is are port labeled 1394 , USB 3, headphones, mic and 2nd USB 3 port.

[Aki]

Yes, in the pamphlet photo is looks like a dummy port closed by a cap.

[Aki]

Hello @jpaulb,

Could you please report the "Type-model" from the ID label of the computer ?

Probably the inxi or the dmidecode commands could also report it, too.

Thanks.

[jpaulb]

inxi
CPU: 2x 8-Core Intel Xeon E5-2670 0 (-MT MCP SMP-)
speed/min/max: 1197/1200/3300 MHz Kernel: 5.4.0-174-lowlatency x86_64
Up: 9h 40m Mem: 6057.3/128859.5 MiB (4.7%) Storage: 2.84 TiB (42.1% used)
Procs: 640 Shell: bash 5.0.17 inxi: 3.0.38

dmidecode
# dmidecode 3.2 That read out is 27 pages long

This is the last box due to be converted to Bookworm.