JVC DV Cameras and NEC 1394 Cards on XP SP2 onwards

Apparently Microsoft claim to have never supported firewire. hmm. Anyway, my problem was like this:

I would connect up the camera, and windows would display the device in My computer, and when I double clicked I could watch a preview.

However, in Windows Movie Maker (AND sony vegas demo), when i tried to capture it hung for ages and said "make sure the device is not in use by another program". It would continue hanging and being sluggish until the camera was unplugged again.

Various solutions were available on the internet, including an MS patch which didn't work, messing around with device manager, and switching your NEC card to another with a TI chipset instead.

But what worked for me was this one.
Get an sp1 windows disk (must be pre Service Pack 2)
in the /i386/sp1.cab file, copy these four files:

1394bus.sys
arp1394.sys
nic1394.sys
ohci1394.sys

to /windows/system32/dll cache
AND
/windows/system32/drivers

So it looks like ms screwed up their firewire with sp2! but who cares, i can record to youtube again! :-)

EEEPC 2G Surf and madwifi-ng with monitor mode injection patch on Xubuntu

So I don't forget....(as root btw)

svn checkout http://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/branches/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6/ madwifi-hal

wget http://patches.aircrack-ng.org/madwifi-ng-r3745.patch -O ../madwifi-ng.patch
patch -Np1 -i ../madwifi-ng-r3745.patch

make clean
make

ifconfig ath0 down
ifconfig wifi0 down
./scripts/madwifi-unload

make install
depmod -ae
modprobe ath_pci

Atheros Wireless will now work! however it wont go into monitor mode straight away. hmm. so..


airmon-ng start wifi0
airmon-ng stop ath0
airmon-ng stop ath[x] (where [x] is the number of the other one that was created)
airmon-ng start wifi0

Now ath0 is in monitor mode! yay!