Hi,

I had a similar issue which relates to this (getting my iPod working
with firewire). Apparently NetBSD's firewire code is not to the point
where it can attach devices.

Takahashi Kiyohara was kind enough to point me to his patches which
integrates FreeBSD's firewire code into the NetBSD source tree. It
works great for me, and others have also reported success.

http://www.kk.iij4u.or.jp/~kiyohara/firewire/

Cheers,
antifuse

On Sun, 1 Aug 2004 23:14:24 +0200 (CEST), Barry Bouwsma
<freebsd-misuser@remove-nospam-to-reply.nospam.dyndns.dk> wrote:
> [keep replies on the list, not to me, to avoid bounces, thanks.
>  I'll catch up later from the archives]
> 
> Hello, um...
> 
> A couple stupid questions, to see if what I'm observing is to be
> expected.  Kernel built from sources mid-July-ish; ancient i386
> machine.
> 
> How is the support for firewire-attached storage devices?  I'm
> seeing nothing.  fwnode is found, but nothing gets attached to
> it.  My kernel config has the sbpfoo and everything that as far
> as I know is needed to make a disk show up.
> 
> (I can't provide a `dmesg' readily, since the alleged root filesystem
> is supposed to be on the drive attached via firewire.  Also, FWIW,
> the identical configuration works splendidly under FreeBSD, should
> one want to steal^Wborrow that code.)
> 
> Also, are there known issues with USB devices attached to an
> external hub?
> 
> The particular configuration works fine with my FreeBSD code,
> where I have a USB1 hub attached to an OHCI internal hub, and
> several devices to that, as well as another device connected
> directly to the OHCI hub.  With NetBSD, everything connected
> directly to the internal OHCI hub is seen (except for a USB2
> hub, which manages to be used successfully as USB1 with
> FreeBSD), but nothing connected to the external USB1 hub is
> recognized.
> 
> Again, as the root filesystem I wanted to use is on the drive
> that I've connected to the USB1 hub, it's not seen, so I can't
> readily provide a dmesg.
> 
> (My USB problem may also be OHCI-related, as earlier when I
> built my root filesystem on the external drive, it had been
> connected via EHCI successfully, and the internal UHCI controller
> was able to see the connected external USB2 hub (as USB1), as
> well as all the devices attached to the external hub.  Or it
> could be the hardware -- different machines entirely.)
> 
> Anyway, I thought I'd ask about these issues.  I'd boot a
> GENERIC kernel if I could, but the one I built panics with
> this hardware promptly upon booting.  The machine is something
> like ten years old now.  I did bring a firewire-only card (the
> one I'm attempting to use is combo firewire/usb), so I might
> think about swapping hardware to see if it makes a difference.
> 
> Of course, if there have been changes since 19.Jul or so,
> sorry that I haven't built an up-to-date kernel yet with
> them, and if this is true, ignore my queries.
> 
> thanks,
> barry bouwsma
> 
>