<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 13, 2007, at 6:14 AM, Jacob Steenhagen wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/12/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jeff Coffler</b> <<a href="mailto:jeff-list-mythusers@taltos.com">jeff-list-mythusers@taltos.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Yes, I'm running CentOS v5.1. I do firewire captures with the Centos<br>Plus kernel, and it works great.<br></blockquote></div><br>Is the plus kernel a requirement for doing firewire capture? Or did you update to it for other reasons?</blockquote><br></div><div>Update to the plus kernel is a requirement. The default RHEL5 kernel (and thus the CentOS kernel) does not ship with firewire enabled.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>That said, however, this is the easiest solution (to me), for the following reasons:</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>1. CentOS is MUCH more "stable" in the sense that you're not looking at retiring the O/S every six months,</div><div>2. Fedora required mucking because the kernel firewire stack was incompatible with the tools, so you needed to make more changes (and do more fiddling) to make things work on Fedora,</div><div>3. Enabling the Plus kernel is essentially a two line change (well documented on the CentOS wiki) in the yum configuration file.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>The firewire stack in CentOS 5 is otherwise compatible with the tools, so no other changes are needed - it "just works".</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>-- Jeff<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>