Firewire/ieee1394 Beginner questions

From: Morten Skaarup Jensen (msj_at_somewhere.in.dk)
Date: 05/30/04 

Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 11:02:07 +0200

I'm trying to get my Canon MV530i digital camcorder working using
Firewire on an AMD K6-2 500MHz machine. Yesterday I actually got
gscanbus to play, rewind etc, but I didn't get dvgrab to work. At
some point I disconnected the camcorder and since then gscanbus
has not been able to see it.

What I'm looking for is a relevant HOWTO and possibly some simple
command line methods of checking what is going on in the ieee1394
card. Also, as far as I remember, gscanbus showed up as S100
yesterday and now it shows up as S400 - what does S100/S400 mean?

Oh, and if you think my hardware might be too slow to manage
this, please tell me.

In case it is relevant, the software I'm using is Mepis Linux
(Kernel 2.4.22), Gscanbus 0.7.1 and dvgrab 1.2 (I guess it would
be a start for me to upgrade this to 1.5 although it won't solve
my gscanbus problem).

Any help will be appreciated

Morten