Bug 133916 - Firewire support is missing in RHES4 Beta1
Summary: Firewire support is missing in RHES4 Beta1
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 4.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-09-28 14:11 UTC by Bernd Bartmann
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:10 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2004-10-28 01:27:24 UTC
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Description Bernd Bartmann 2004-09-28 14:11:45 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The kernel included in RHES4 Beta1 ES does not seem to contain the
firewire driver modules.

I remember a discussion on this topic on the FC mailing lists. What is
the conclusion here? How can we help to debug the firewire problem
when the drivers are not included?

Without firewire support RHES4 is next to useless as many users
nowadays have external firewire hard disks as cheap and fast backup
devices.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try to access a firewire device
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Additional info:
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2004-09-29 14:57:55 UTC 
the firewire subsystem in the 2.6 kernel isn't nearly close to the
minimum required quality for inclusion in RHEL currently.
Comment 2 Bernd Bartmann 2004-09-29 15:14:06 UTC 
And now what? Is somebody working on improving the firewire drivers?
How can we help?
Comment 3 Dave Jones 2004-10-26 22:54:06 UTC 
work with upstream to get it in better shape for future inclusion.
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