In article <200607041842.k64IgubT001977@guild.plethora.net>,
Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net> wrote:
>Hi!  I have a machine which in theory ought to work, but which has in fact
>been very thoroughly jinxed.  It's for a customer who, really, doesn't care
>much whether I provide FreeBSD or NetBSD.
>
>FreeBSD hangs during boot if ACPI is enabled; if it isn't, the machine can't
>go MP.  This can be worked around by disabling the SCSI controller, but then
>there's no SCSI.
>
>NetBSD runs fine in MP, with the SCSI controller, but I can't make FireWire
>devices work.  The firewire card probes correctly, comes up with reasonable
>IDs... And then nothing happens when devices are attached.
>
>I'm writing to port-i386 because I'm currently running the system on i386
>kernels, but it's actually Opterons; behavior was in no way different on
>amd64, though.  I figured port-i386 was probably a better bet.
>
>So, uhm.  IEEE 1394 in 3.0:  Is there something I need to do beyond
>uncommenting fwohci, fw, sbpscsi, and so on?  Does it work?

You should use current for 1394 me thinks.

christos