[mythtv-users] firewire troubleshoot

fuzzie1300 fuzzie1300 at optonline.net
Tue Nov 27 01:03:36 UTC 2007


I am having some problems getting firewire going.  I have a Scientific
Atlanta SA4250.  I've been following the wiki,

 lsmod|grep 1394
raw1394                30789  0
dv1394                 22821  0
ohci1394               37488  1 dv1394
ieee1394              294681  3 raw1394,dv1394,ohci1394



 plugreport
Host Adapter 0
==============

Node 0 GUID 0x0090a94008005308
------------------------------
libiec61883 error: error reading oMPR
libiec61883 error: error reading iMPR

Node 1 GUID 0x001ac3f83c5c0000
------------------------------
oMPR n_plugs=1, data_rate=2, bcast_channel=63
oPCR[0] online=1, bcast_connection=0, n_p2p_connections=1
        channel=1, data_rate=1, overhead_id=0, payload=146
iMPR n_plugs=0, data_rate=2


plugctl -n 0 oPCR[0].n_p2p_connections=1

test-mpeg2 -r 1 > test.mpg
libiec61883 warning: Overlayed connection on channel 1.
You may need to manually set the channel on the receiving node.
Starting to receive
done

ls -l

-rw-r--r--  1 root root         0 Nov 26 19:56 test.mpg

I try this several times...and always 0 bytes.

 firewire_tester -p -n 1 -r 5
Action: Test P2P connection 5 times, node 1, channel 1
P2P: Testing...Failed
P2P: Testing...Failed
P2P: Testing...Failed
P2P: Testing...Failed
P2P: Testing...Failed


 firewire_tester -B -n 1
Action: Attempt to fix broadcast connection 1 times, node 1
Broadcast: Testing...Failed
P2P: Testing...Failed
P2P: Testing...Failed
P2P: Testing...Failed
P2P: Testing...Failed
P2P: Testing...Failed
P2P: Testing...Failed
P2P: Testing...Failed
P2P: Testing...Failed
P2P: Testing...Failed
P2P: Testing...Failed
Broadcast Fix: Failed

lspci -v

01:08.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): NEC Corporation IEEE 1394 [OrangeLink]
Host Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
        Subsystem: Orange Micro Root hub
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 19
        Memory at ed001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2


cat /etc/redhat-release
MythDora release 4.0 (Will wonders never cease?)
[root at localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 #1 SMP Tue Apr 10
18:46:45 EDT 2007 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[root at localhost ~]#

this is in modprobe.conf


alias ieee1394-controler ohci1394
install ohci1394 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ohci1394;
/sbin/modprobe raw1394


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