LinuxBSDos.com article

[Vincent Hoffman]

On 19/02/2010 09:38, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 19/02/2010 09:30, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > Stephen Hurd <hurds at sasktel.net> writes:
> >> "Dag-Erling Smørgrav" <des at des.no> writes:
> >>> Stephen Hurd <hurds at sasktel.net> writes:
> >>>> The decision to not support it would be (was?) like deciding to
> >>>> not support firewire...
> >>> Like Apple just did?  :P
> >> Oh?  Firewire can't be used with new versions of OS/X?
>
> > Sure it can, but newer MacBooks don't have Firewire ports.
>
> Huh?
>
> seedling:~:% ifconfig fw0
> fw0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 4078
>     lladdr d4:9a:20:ff:fe:d7:47:44
>     media: autoselect <full-duplex> status: inactive
>     supported media: autoselect <full-duplex>
>
> MacBookPro, less than a month old...
>
I believe they only  dropped it on the macbooks (not the pro.) There was
the usual hoo-ha back in 2008
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9117339/Apple_users_rage_over_missing_FireWire
http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/jobs-sort-of-speaks-out-on-macbook-dropping-firewire-20081017/


Vince
>     Cheers,
>
>     Matthew
>
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