Troubles with mounting firewire drives

[canton]

Hi there,

I've ressurected my Powerbook G3 pismo and it's running
2.6.32-5-powerpc just great... except for mounting firewire drives.
Anyone here who can help?

When I plug in an external firewire drive, I see the following messages:

Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.231276] firewire_core: giving up
on config rom for node id ffc1
Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.231307] firewire_core: phy
config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5
Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.239340] firewire_core: phy
config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5
Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.247322] firewire_core: phy
config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5
Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.255363] firewire_core: phy
config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5
Jun 26 21:49:14 debian kernel: [20282.263347] firewire_core: phy
config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=5
Jun 26 21:49:25 debian kernel: [20293.369010] firewire_core: phy
config: card 0, new root=ffc0, gap_count=63

Have tried a number of different drives and firewire cables, still
always get this 'giving up on config rom' error.

Hot-plugging USB drives and DVDs works great -- it's just firewire
that's hosed.

Any tips?

[ppc.addon]

if i remember on my pmac sawtooth i switched off the firewire kernel support because pci-lynx driver was totally broken.

nello
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