How to determine Firewire Card?

[bbarr]

I have a dell inspiron 9300 laptop. How do I check what kind of Firewire card it has?

[Ben Mullens]

Open Device Manager and look for "IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controllers" and click the "+" next to it.

If it says "OHCI Compliant xxxxxxxxxxxx" it's a generic chipset.

If there is something in front of OHCI, it has that type of chipset. (IE Texas Instruments, VIA, NEC etc)

[jlc]

What should you hope it says TI, what works?


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