Firewire cards supported

Marc Wiz marc at wiz.com
Sat Dec 13 11:23:47 PST 2003


On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:14:24PM -0600, Marc Wiz wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 04:49:27PM -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> > Anyone recommend a particular firewire card/brand for use with FreeBSD 4.x 
> > (and possibly 5.x in the future).
> 
> Forrest,
> 
> the handbook has info on which chipsets are supported.  
> 
> You just need to find out what chipset is on the card.
> 
> I would tell you which card I have and am using but I can't remember
> right now.  All pciconf shows it that it uses a VIA chipset.

To add this to the archives the card I have and use with no problems
is from SIIG.

The box says "FireWire (1394) Home DV Editing Kit"

The actual Firewire chips were covered with a SIIG label but they
are obviously work :-)

Marc
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