I decided to connect my PC to the laptop via firewire. All interfaces are up, but no packets can be send/recieved.
I'm using Linux Slackware64-current (kernel 2.6.37.4) Laptop (Dell Vostro 3700) has this adapter:
root@trium:~# lspci | grep 1394
14:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd FireWire Host Controller (rev 01)
Old ieee1394 stack was removed in new kernels. thats why I use new:
root@trium:~# modprobe firewire-net
root@trium:~# lsmod | grep fire
firewire_net 12930 0
firewire_ohci 27301 0
firewire_core 51107 2 firewire_net,firewire_ohci
dmesg shows:
firewire_net: firewire0: IPv4 over FireWire on device 47203fc0434fc000
firewire_net: max_rec 0 out of range
firewire_core: refreshed device fw0
1st string is good, but the 2nd is strange for me. what does it mean? maybe it is the source of the problem? ok. lets configure the interface:
root@trium:~# ifconfig firewire0 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
root@trium:~# ifconfig
firewire0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 47-20-3F-C0-43-4F-C0-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:20
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2445 (2.3 KiB) TX bytes:2445 (2.3 KiB)
Same configuration steps were made on my PC. OS is the same. FireWire device -
05:06.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 46)
dmesg showed:
firewire_net: firewire0: IPv4 over FireWire on device 4d5a900003000000
firewire_net: max_rec 0 out of range
firewire_core: refreshed device fw0
interface configuration -
root@bium:~# ifconfig firewire0 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0
root@bium:~# ifconfig
firewire0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 4D-5A-90-00-03-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:20
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:70120 (68.4 KiB) TX bytes:70120 (68.4 KiB)
Now lets ping PC from laptop -
root@trium:~# ping -c 3 192.168.1.3
PING 192.168.1.3 (192.168.1.3) 56(84) bytes of data.
From 192.168.1.2 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.2 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host Unreachable
From 192.168.1.2 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable
--- 192.168.1.3 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 received, +3 errors, 100% packet loss, time 1999ms
pipe 3
Yes. the cable is connected. Laptop has 4pin port, and PC has 6pin port. AFAIK 6pin uses two pins for power supplyment. I have the coresponding cable, so i don't think that the problem is here.
thats all. thanks
