FireWire

This article describes the setup of FireWire (IEEE 1394, i.Link) controllers.

Kernel configuration
For FireWire support, the following kernel options need to be activated:

Select additional drivers as needed. For example, a FireWire hard drive may need the following options enabled:

USE flags
Portage knows the global USE flag  for enabling support for FireWire in other packages. Enabling this USE flag will pull in automatically:

Emerge
After setting the USE flag above update the system so the changes take effect:

External resources

 * FireWire kernel wiki