I can't help but I do have the exact same problem. Generic
card w. VIA chipset, Gigabyte motherboard with Athlon
1800. The hub is present in the device Mgr but absolutely
no response. It used to work perfectly before the WinXP
registry corrupted. I've sinced reinstalled XP & this is
the only outstanding issue.

Carl


>-----Original Message-----
>I am looking for understanding and solutions for my
>problem in XP. I have recently upgraded to XP, and have
>devoted a great amount of time trying to recognize and
>configure my hardware and support issues with XP. One of
>my challenging issues is this:
>
>XP recognizes my firewire card as a NIC card, and sets up
>a network connection for it. the card hence is useless
>and wont work. I have done the basics (another driver by
>diff manufac., take out and reinstall, remove, configure
>in network, device manager, etc.) The card is a generic
>card that came with the sytem that HP uses. The
>motherboard is a AM37 by Mainboard with integrated ac97
>sound, nic, and video. The proc is AMD athlon 2400+ 2g,
>p4 platform. The firewire or ieee 1394 card is made by
>Smart Modular Technologies, and subbed at times to
>selectron company in CA. finding the actual driver for
>that card is hell. The card is a 2+1 port. XP thinks it
>has a signiature driver that, although the root is
>defined as a OHCI IEEE 1394, it sets up the device under
>network cards.
>
>If anyone can help with this i would love it. XP wont
>let me keep it uninstalled to change it anyway, it
>reinstalls it automatically, i never put a driver in for
>it.
>
>Thanks
>Rob
>.
>

yup, i ordered a new one (ADS pyro), but i sure would
like to know about this wonder. it would appear that MS
is getting some kickbacks on drivers under the excuse
of "helping it run smoother", but it really doesnt, and
they took most of the self configurators out of the loop.
apparently, we are all supposed to run a certain type
of "new" computer, specific "new" hardware, and certain
drivers "new ones". also, all the old crap dont work. I
wonder if that's how IBM saw all of this back in the day
they left the PC patent open?


>-----Original Message-----u
>I can't help but I do have the exact same problem.
Generic
>card w. VIA chipset, Gigabyte motherboard with Athlon
>1800. The hub is present in the device Mgr but
absolutely
>no response. It used to work perfectly before the WinXP
>registry corrupted. I've sinced reinstalled XP & this is
>the only outstanding issue.
>
>Carl
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I am looking for understanding and solutions for my
>>problem in XP. I have recently upgraded to XP, and
have
>>devoted a great amount of time trying to recognize and
>>configure my hardware and support issues with XP. One
of
>>my challenging issues is this:
>>
>>XP recognizes my firewire card as a NIC card, and sets
up
>>a network connection for it. the card hence is useless
>>and wont work. I have done the basics (another driver
by
>>diff manufac., take out and reinstall, remove,
configure
>>in network, device manager, etc.) The card is a
generic
>>card that came with the sytem that HP uses. The
>>motherboard is a AM37 by Mainboard with integrated ac97
>>sound, nic, and video. The proc is AMD athlon 2400+
2g,
>>p4 platform. The firewire or ieee 1394 card is made by
>>Smart Modular Technologies, and subbed at times to
>>selectron company in CA. finding the actual driver for
>>that card is hell. The card is a 2+1 port. XP thinks
it
>>has a signiature driver that, although the root is
>>defined as a OHCI IEEE 1394, it sets up the device
under
>>network cards.
>>
>>If anyone can help with this i would love it. XP wont
>>let me keep it uninstalled to change it anyway, it
>>reinstalls it automatically, i never put a driver in
for
>>it.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Rob
>>.
>>
>.
>

Look here IEEE 1394 problems can happen because of PCI
latency problems in VIA chipset motherboards.

http://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/

>-----Original Message-----
>I can't help but I do have the exact same problem.
Generic
>card w. VIA chipset, Gigabyte motherboard with Athlon
>1800. The hub is present in the device Mgr but absolutely
>no response. It used to work perfectly before the WinXP
>registry corrupted. I've sinced reinstalled XP & this is
>the only outstanding issue.
>
>Carl
>
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I am looking for understanding and solutions for my
>>problem in XP. I have recently upgraded to XP, and have
>>devoted a great amount of time trying to recognize and
>>configure my hardware and support issues with XP. One
of
>>my challenging issues is this:
>>
>>XP recognizes my firewire card as a NIC card, and sets
up
>>a network connection for it. the card hence is useless
>>and wont work. I have done the basics (another driver
by
>>diff manufac., take out and reinstall, remove, configure
>>in network, device manager, etc.) The card is a generic
>>card that came with the sytem that HP uses. The
>>motherboard is a AM37 by Mainboard with integrated ac97
>>sound, nic, and video. The proc is AMD athlon 2400+ 2g,
>>p4 platform. The firewire or ieee 1394 card is made by
>>Smart Modular Technologies, and subbed at times to
>>selectron company in CA. finding the actual driver for
>>that card is hell. The card is a 2+1 port. XP thinks
it
>>has a signiature driver that, although the root is
>>defined as a OHCI IEEE 1394, it sets up the device under
>>network cards.
>>
>>If anyone can help with this i would love it. XP wont
>>let me keep it uninstalled to change it anyway, it
>>reinstalls it automatically, i never put a driver in for
>>it.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Rob
>>.
>>
>.
>