I am relatively new to CentOS. I attempted to install 5.3 with firewire several weeks ago and abandoned the install because it was taking too long to figure out the problems. I've had to revisit this and am having troubles with it. I was told that CentOS 5 has firewire 1394 support. When I did the typical install, it didn't physically (manually) install the video1394 and raw1394 modules. At boot up, my computer says that video1394 and raw1394 are "Module(s) not found". If I do <lsmod> I get (*snippet of o/p),

Module Size Used by
lockd 63081 0
sunrpc 145405 2 lockd
dm_mirror 24393 0
dm_multipath 24909 0
scsi_dh 11713 1 dm_multipath
video 21193 0
hwmon 7365 0
backlight 10049 1 video
sbs 18533 0
lp 15849 0
parport 37513 2 parport_pc,lp
e752x_edac 14277 0
sg 36573 0
edac_mc 26257 1 e752x_edac
i2c_i801 11725 0
firewire_ohci 25929 0
firewire_core 43465 1 firewire_ohci
e1000 115797 0
i2c_core 23745 2 i2c_ec,i2c_i801
ext3 125001 4
jbd 57065 1 ext3
uhci_hcd 25421 0
ohci_hcd 24553 0
ehci_hcd 33869 0


I've found instructions which tell me I need to recompile the kernel after I have run the command <make menuconfig> and mark the proper modules with an 'M':

OHCI-1394 support
OHCI-1394 Video support
OHCI-1394 DVI/O support
RAW IEEE1394 I/O support


I then need to build and install the kernel with the following: <make all && make modules_install && make install> When I do this, I get the following error message:

[root@moet2 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5-i686]# make all && make modules_install && make i
CHK include/linux/version.h
CHK include/linux/utsrelease.h
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `init/main.o', needed by `init/built-in.o'.
make: *** [init] Error 2


I have the latest kernel-devel package installed,

[root@moet2 ~]# yum install kernel-devel
Loaded plugins: changelog, downloadonly, fastestmirror, protectbase, versionlock
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* addons: mirror.clarkson.edu
* base: netops.nexicom.net
* extras: netops.nexicom.net
* updates: netops.nexicom.net
0 packages excluded due to repository protections
Reading version lock configuration
Setting up Install Process
Package kernel-devel-2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.i686 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do


I have found several other posts on the web that indicate I have to get the latest source files, but I do not know which one is the correct one or where to find it. Can anyone ponit me in the right direction? Is there anything else that I need to do?

I also made sure that I have enabled my firewire drivers by commenting out the line "blacklist firewire-ohci" in the blacklist-firewire file. I have also tried installing all the 1394 packages via the Package Manager.

You should not need to compile anything.

Please consider installing the kABI tracking kmod-ieee1394 package that is available from ELRepo.

Once you have configured your system to access the ELRepo repositories, it would simply be --


Please also be aware that CentOS 5.4 is the current release. If you haven't already done so, I would recommend that you read the CentOS 5.4 release notes and then update your system.

I was told that this version of Cent has the all new firewire modules which do not support the version 1.x.x of libraw and libdc that I am trying to use. I had to enable the kernel "plus" and make sure that I wasn't using the firewire_ohci module. Without the "plus' enabled, it did not recognize or install any of the firewire modules.

The kernel I am am running now is: 2.6.18-164.6.1.el5.centos.plus Once I moved to this kernel and installed the proper firewire modules my firewire card was recognized and I was able to install Coriander (couldn't before).