Re: Firewire and AIX

From: Green, Simon (Simon.Green_at_EU.ALTRIA.COM)
Date: 10/28/04

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    I've never heard of a Firewire adapter with AIX support.
    A very quick search would suggest that you might be able to do it, but you'd
    have to compile the drivers yourself. (There are some Linux pages which
    suggest it'll work for AIX, which isn't too unlikely.) That won't be
    supported, of course.

    Interestingly, the p5 servers include USB ports for keyboard and mouse. I
    don't know if they're useable for anything else, but I guess they ought to
    be if they adhere to the USB standard. Don't know if that's USB 1 or 2,
    though. 

    --
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Robert Miller
> Sent: 28 October 2004 16:57
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Re: Firewire and AIX
>
>
> My gut instinct says it's not a real high possibility that
> AIX will grok firewire... especially since I haven't seen any
> of their machines have onboard USB ports.
>
> Granted, I haven't looked at their adapter cards, but I have
> a suspicion there's no IBM adapter card for firewire, and
> probably not for USB... and if there's not I seriously doubt
> they'd support a 3rd party card.  And if they don't support
> the 3rd party cards, there's no drivers written, which will
> mean there's no way for it to work - unless someone out there
> has written a driver for a specific card, which will probably
> be for a particular OS level.
>
> It's certainly possible that I'm wrong on this... but I have
> a hunch I might not be ;)
>
> --rm
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU]On Behalf Of
> Marc Taylor
> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 8:34 AM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Firewire and AIX
>
>
> Good morning,
>
> I was wondering if one could put in a firewire card in an AIX
> box (say an
> F50)?  Would AIX know how to talk to any connected devices?
> Has anyone
> tried this?
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