[wplug] hello & firewire camcorder issue

[Dan Goeder]

Hello. I'm Dan. My brother-in-law just introduced me to Linux and told me to 
sign up here for help with my learning.
I have been trying to get my Canon ZR40 camcorder to work with my system.
Here are the problems that I am having:


Here is the issue. We think the driver is loaded and workding as seen in the 
output of 'lsmod'
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[root at localhost root]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
tulip                  43552   0
ppp_deflate             4536   0  (autoclean)
zlib_deflate           21464   0  (autoclean) [ppp_deflate]
ppp_async               9440   1  (autoclean)
ppp_generic            24380   3  (autoclean) [ppp_deflate ppp_async]
slhc                    6756   0  (autoclean) [ppp_generic]
nls_iso8859-1           3516   1  (autoclean)
nls_cp437               5148   1  (autoclean)
vfat                   13084   1  (autoclean)
fat                    38712   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
sr_mod                 18168   0  (autoclean)
soundcore               6532   0  (autoclean)
binfmt_misc             7528   1
autofs                 13348   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ipt_REJECT              3736   6  (autoclean)
iptable_filter          2412   1  (autoclean)
ip_tables              15224   2  [ipt_REJECT iptable_filter]
ide-scsi               10512   0
scsi_mod              107240   2  [sr_mod ide-scsi]
ide-cd                 33608   0
cdrom                  33696   0  [sr_mod ide-cd]
ohci1394               20108   0  (unused)
ieee1394               46892   0  [ohci1394]
mousedev                5524   2
keybdev                 2976   0  (unused)
hid                    22244   0  (unused)
input                   5920   0  [mousedev keybdev hid]
usb-uhci               26188   0  (unused)
ehci-hcd               17480   0  (unused)
usbcore                77024   1  [hid usb-uhci ehci-hcd]
ext3                   70336   2
jbd                    52212   2  [ext3]
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here is what proc is seeing.

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[root at localhost root]# cat /proc/bus/ieee1394/devices
Node[00:1023]  GUID[230050c5000107b8]:
  Vendor ID: `Linux OHCI-1394' [0x000000]
  Capabilities: 0x0083c0
  Bus Options:
    IRMC(0) CMC(1) ISC(1) BMC(0) PMC(0) GEN(0)
    LSPD(2) MAX_REC(2048) CYC_CLK_ACC(0)
  Host Node Status:
    Host Driver     : ohci1394
    Nodes connected : 2
    Nodes active    : 2
    SelfIDs received: 2
    Irm ID          : [01:1023]
    BusMgr ID       : [63:1023]
    In Bus Reset    : no
    Root            : no
    Cycle Master    : no
    IRM             : no
    Bus Manager     : no
Node[01:1023]  GUID[00008500005033df]:
  Vendor ID: `Canon' [0x000085]
  Capabilities: 0x0083c0
  Bus Options:
    IRMC(1) CMC(1) ISC(1) BMC(0) PMC(0) GEN(0)
    LSPD(0) MAX_REC(512) CYC_CLK_ACC(100)
  Unit Directory 0:
    Vendor/Model ID: Canon [000085] / ZR40 [000000]
    Software Specifier ID: 00a02d
    Software Version: 010001
    Length (in quads): 0
[root at localhost root]#

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When we unplug the device and move the port it is using on the firewire card 
we get a mesage back... (more confermation that the camera is live and 
accessable)

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Mar 22 13:07:09 localhost su(pam_unix)[5958]: session opened for user root 
by dan(uid=500)
Mar 22 13:10:37 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: SelfID received outside of bus 
reset sequence
Mar 22 13:10:38 localhost /etc/hotplug/ieee1394.agent: ... no drivers for 
IEEE1394 product 0x000085/0x00a02d/0x010001
[root at localhost root]#

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according to the man pages on dvgrab (dvgrab-1.01-5) this should pull the 
files off the camcorder and place them into the specified file, but instead, 
I get this.

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[root at localhost root]# dvgrab test.file
raw1394 - couldn't get handle: No such device
This error usually means that the ieee1394 driver is not loaded or that 
/dev/raw1394 does not exist.
[root at localhost root]#
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Any help? Hoping to us Linux for video editing to avoid buying Microsoft but 
need to get this up and working.

Thanks in advance.


Dan

PS: Sorry if this is sent as HTML email. Free internet mail was a good price 
and I have had the account for a while.

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