XP Firewire to Firewire Info

Howdy,

I am also trying to use a firewire connection to connect my laptop and desktop. The hardware seems to register fine on both machines, I have even connected my ipod to both machines - so i know the cards are good. The problem is that when i connect the two machines together using the 6-pin firewire cable the machines do not talk.

What's interesting is that if i try to 'repair' the firewire network connection on either machine it says 'tcp/ip is not enabled for this connection. cannot proceed.' Obviously I have enabled the connection. Even if i assign it a static IP address I get the same problem.

So for those of you who have got this to work can you answer a few quick questions:

-what shows under the 'network connection' > status > support tab for the firewire connection? Does it show <unavailable> or does it show actual network values?

-does the firewire connection show up when you do an ipconfig /all ? mine does not.

Thanks in advance for the help!!! I think i'm losing my mind rebooting

Well in my experience, firewire networks don't work to well. I don't use them now, but I have done in the past. Sometimes I found that they worked, other times they didn't. I kept having to unplug the cable from both computers and reconnect it until it started working.

In response to your questions, when you view the settings for the connection, you should get shown a list of IP addresses etc (not <unavailable>). This means that something is wrong and the network won't work. The connection should also show up in ipconfig /all.

I can't really suggest much apart from unplugging the cable then reconnecting. There is a piece of software (called something like Firenet I think) which makes the Firewire connection seem like a standard ethernet connection to the OS, and this may work better, although I've not tried it myself.