[wplug] disappearing cdrom on a laptop.

[harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu]

Sometime in July harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu assaulted keyboard and produced...

|
|see this is really weird. the cdrom  doesn't show up anywhere down there.
|i'm wondering if plug and play os or something is enabled in the bios. the
|computer is currently locked in a room, so i only have network access. i'll
|check it out around 10.30.
|

ok i poked around a bit and it turns out that the cdrom is a firewire
device. so since i don't know much about them i went here:
http://linux1394.sourceforge.net/

i read through the section of the faq that talks about cdrom drives. i
loaded the kernel modules just fine ( raw1394 ohci1394 ieee1394), but when
i look in /proc the ohci1394 directory doesn't appear to be there.  the faq
also has a shell script to identify devices. i ran the shell script, but it
didn't find any devices. what would these devices show up as? /def/fwa?

i'll admit some ignorance here, since i don't have any expirence with
firewire.  i thought about patching the kernel using the stuff in the above
link, but i don't know if i would be doing what redhat has already done.

does anyone have any advice to offer?




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