ifconfig not finding firewire

[Lars Noodén]

The kernel finds firewire storage devices and mounts them just fine. What needs to be done to get ifconfig to allow networking over firewire?

[cyberdork33]

The kernel finds firewire storage devices and mounts them just fine. What needs to be done to get ifconfig to allow networking over firewire?

The module that allows networking over ieee1394 is blacklisted by default because it causes much confusion.

See /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

[stream303]

That can trip one up on PPC as well during first install - take it slowly so you don't end up designating your firewire as the ethernet port - make sure it is pointing to the real ethernet hardware. Been there. :)