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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/31/20 7:04 PM, John Hoyt wrote:<br>
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<div> I'm fortunate enough to have another Ubuntu box,
so I ordered an inexpensive PCI-E firewire card for
it, which allowed me to test. On the test box
plugreport showed the set-top-box. The card came with
a full-size to mini-size firewire cable, which I
connected to the other 1394 socket on my original
machine, and voila, plugreport on that machine showed
the set-top-box. So it seems that either the
mini-size socket on my original machine went bad, or
the mini-to-mini cable went bad. I have no idea how
that can happen to things sitting there undisturbed,
but there you have it. So this is SOLVED. </div>
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<div>Out of curiosity, what firewire card and more
specifically what chipset is it using? </div>
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<div>In the past I could only ever get TI-based firewire
chipsets to work reliably in Linux. All of my current STBs
have abandoned firewire, but knowing what cards work in
Linux could be useful if I end up switching providers to
ones with firewire in the future. I found using the
firewire channel changing far more reliable / easier to
configure across OS upgrades than the lirc based approach I
currently employ.</div>
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<p>I still use Firewire. The card in my machine is a Texas
Instrument Tsb43ab23, thats what hardinfo reports.. The bad part
of using FW is most STB's only have 1 fw port. You loose the
ability to daisy chain. If some one has been able to run two stb's
with single ports,I would love to hear about it....</p>
<p>Lirc is a no go for me. I have tried many times,but fail every
time.<br>
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