I’ve discovered a neat little tool in order to monitor IEEE1394 (firewire) devices on linux. It’s called gscanbus. It allows monitoring of devices for debugging purposes, and as I’m doing some work with firewire for my thesis, it should be quite useful. Having said that, it was a little painful to setup on fedora core 4, the machine I have at uni. For anybody else struggling, now or in the future, make sure that the raw1394 module is located in the right place, else it won’t be found.
ln -s /dev/raw/raw1394 /dev/raw1394
hopefully this helps someone in the future.
