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  • 2 weeks later...
I have the same problem.... Disaster!

 

Have you checked to see if your system.kext and kernel versions match?

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yes i have HAD the same problem.

Firewire card is detected, but no devices work off the card! this is due to the 1394 chipset used. i had some cheap VIA 1394 chipset at first. i thought it was the installation of osx giving issues. but i then tryed a T.I firewire card, and everything worked perfect. so i think it is the chipset that is giving your issues. if anything, i would recommend you purchasing texas instruments firewire cards only for hackintosh's, nothing else.. for TI was the inventor of 1394 and apple have been using their 1394 hardware since 1994.

The exact problem i had with the via card, was that devices were seen to be plugged in, but device ID's were reported as 0x0000000, and sometimes, some other HEX address (i cannot remember exactly). All cards used were PCI.. PCMCIA should be no different.

if the new ti 1394 card does not fix your problem, there is something wrong with your kernal installation.

good luck!

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yes i have HAD the same problem.

Firewire card is detected, but no devices work off the card! this is due to the 1394 chipset used. i had some cheap VIA 1394 chipset at first. i thought it was the installation of osx giving issues. but i then tryed a T.I firewire card, and everything worked perfect. so i think it is the chipset that is giving your issues. if anything, i would recommend you purchasing texas instruments firewire cards only for hackintosh's, nothing else.. for TI was the inventor of 1394 and apple have been using their 1394 hardware since 1994.

The exact problem i had with the via card, was that devices were seen to be plugged in, but device ID's were reported as 0x0000000, and sometimes, some other HEX address (i cannot remember exactly). All cards used were PCI.. PCMCIA should be no different.

if the new ti 1394 card does not fix your problem, there is something wrong with your kernal installation.

good luck!

 

Unfortunately, I do not have $75 for a TI card.

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I have the exact same problem. I have a SB Audigy card that has FW built in. It was working with the Leo4All release, but with JaS it's detecting but I cannot connect any devices to it.

 

Any help with kexts would be greatly appreciated.

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I want to follow up with some information here.

 

I don't think the stability was related to the firewire. Also, I don't think I needed the kexts from Leo4All. I found that the problem with FireWire for me was that IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport.kext was unloaded. WHen I manually did a kextload of that kext my FireWire devices came to life.

 

I hope the above is helpful to someone.

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I want to follow up with some information here.

 

I don't think the stability was related to the firewire. Also, I don't think I needed the kexts from Leo4All. I found that the problem with FireWire for me was that IOFireWireSerialBusProtocolTransport.kext was unloaded. WHen I manually did a kextload of that kext my FireWire devices came to life.

 

I hope the above is helpful to someone.

 

 

Which firewire chip you have ?

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I'm a newbie to the osx86 community. My firewire will pop up on start up, but if I plug it in while mac osx (kalyway 10.5.2) is running it won't work.

 

Well, What I did was just buy a separate firewire card. It was $10 on newegg and it works great.

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Well, What I did was just buy a separate firewire card. It was $10 on newegg and it works great.

I don't understand. I have a Gigabyte x58-UD4P with the i7. That board has a firewire socket built in already. I am now trying my Focusrite Sapphire DSP (sound interface for recorded sound). IT is Firewire only. I "thought" it worked as it shows defaulting to full security in FW while booting. But until now I Have not actually tested.

 

Up till now I have been running Leopard and am still struggling to upgrade to SNL. No working FW yet though. Does the thread suggest that I need to get a FW card and forget trying to use the built in GA socket?

 

Thanks

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