Host Controllers

Ricoh

In general we have bad experiences with these. But sometimes they seem to work.

Unknown:

02:00.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0552] (rev 02) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])

Works for Arnold:

00:0a.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0552] (rev 08)

Texas Instruments

Supposed to work

Agere / LSI

FW323 should work. Newer stuff might cause issues.

SiS

Problematic: 00:02.3 FireWire? (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] FireWire? Controller (prog-if 10 [OHCI])