Currently there is a number of known problem with the firewire stack on Fedora 7. http://www.nabble.com/F7-kernel:-ieee1394-resurrection-t4253125.html provides a good overview of the problem and the relating issues.

To fix this issue, thereby allowing DV/HDV camcorders to work, simply follow these steps:

• Ensure the atrpms repo is installed. See page http://www.accessgrid.org/node/779 about how to install the atrpms repository;
• Run the command yum install ieee1394 ieee1394-kmdl-`uname -r`
• Edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-firewire and add the following two lines:

blacklist firewire_core
blacklist firewire_ohci

Reboot the system and now your firewire devices should hopefully work.

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