Firewire equivalent of lsusb lspci ?

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#1

What is the firewire equivalent of lsusb and lspci ?

The best I could find was ls1394, with script here:
Index of /~s5r6/linux1394/ls1394

However, I note it does not appear to give the Vendor-ID/Device-ID (or if it does, I could not figure it out). I installed the script under /home/oldcpu/bin. For example, when I plug in the firewire connection to my Seagate Free Agent XTreme external 1TB hard drive (which has both USB and Firewire) I get (from ls1394):

oldcpu@hal1000:~/bin> ./ls1394.sh
0:ffc0 002037020031f038 'FreeAgent Xtreme'
0:ffc1 001e8c0001d84ea9 (local)

and when plugging same device in via usb I get:

oldcpu@hal1000:~> lsusb
Bus 007 Device 004: ID 0bc2:3101 Seagate RSS LLC
#2

I’m bad ! :slight_smile:

I needed to use the “verbose” option.

hal1000:/home/oldcpu/bin # ./ls1394.sh -v
ls1394: /usr/share/misc/oui.db: No such file
Try to install it with "ls1394 --fetch-oui-db -i file]"

0:ffc0 002037020031f038 'FreeAgent Xtreme'
        IRMC(0) CMC(0) ISC(0) BMC(0) PMC(0) GEN(1)
        LSPD(3) MAX_REC(64) MAX_ROM(1) CYC_CLK_ACC(255)
        capabilities: 0x0083c0
        vendor_id: 0x002037
        vendor_name_kv: Seagate

0:ffc1 001e8c0001d84ea9 (local)
        IRMC(1) CMC(1) ISC(1) BMC(0) PMC(0) GEN(3)
        LSPD(2) MAX_REC(2048) MAX_ROM(2) CYC_CLK_ACC(100)
        capabilities: 0x0083c0
        vendor_id: 0x001e8c
        vendor_name_kv: Linux - ohci1394

I need to sort out the differences between lsusb and ls1394 and also possibly install oui.db

#3

After installing oui.db I get:

oldcpu@hal1000:~/bin> ./ls1394 -v
0:ffc0 002037020031f038 SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY 'FreeAgent Xtreme'
        IRMC(0) CMC(0) ISC(0) BMC(0) PMC(0) GEN(1)
        LSPD(3) MAX_REC(64) MAX_ROM(1) CYC_CLK_ACC(255)
        capabilities: 0x0083c0
        vendor_id: 0x002037 SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY
        vendor_name_kv: Seagate

0:ffc1 001e8c0001d84ea9 ASUSTek COMPUTER INC. (local)
        IRMC(1) CMC(1) ISC(1) BMC(0) PMC(0) GEN(3)
        LSPD(2) MAX_REC(2048) MAX_ROM(2) CYC_CLK_ACC(100)
        capabilities: 0x0083c0
        vendor_id: 0x001e8c ASUSTek COMPUTER INC.
        vendor_name_kv: Linux - ohci1394
#4

Out of curiousity I did a “hwinfo” withOUT the Firewire device NOT plugged in and redirected the output to a text file. Then I did a “hwinfo” WITH the Firewire device plugged in and redirected the output to a different text file. Then I ran a “diff” on the two files.

One gets a lot of output from that difference. Too much. Its definitely no replacement for ls1394 as one is swamped with information with the “diff” from hwinfo.

#5

Here is a good post by the author on ls1394:
Linux-Kernel Archive: announce: ls1394 - tool to list connected FireWire devices

#6

The openSUSE wiki for firewire devices is here:
SDB:Firewire (ieee1394) Drives under Linux - openSUSE
… last updated for SuSE-7.3 in January 2006.

Are there any firewire guru’s out there who are willing to update that wiki for openSUSE , bringing the wiki up to date ?