Exclamation mark on "1394 Net Adapter" upon firewire/usb card install, win xp...

[tom3]

I just installed a firewire/usb combo card (compusa brand, TI and Lucent chipset) on a windows xp machine. In device manager, the firewire card shows up in two places, once as 1394 controller, which looks fine, and the other under network adapters as "1394 net adatper". This is the one that has the yellow exclamation mark, saying "unable to start device".

After reading around for a bit, it seems like there's the net adapter entry because windows xp can do networking over firewire connections. Is it normal to have the yellow exclamation mark next to it if i'm not using the firewire card as a network controller? Can I just disable the device (1394 net adapter) and still be able to use the firewire ports for devices?

thanks!

 

[GiGoLo]

i don't want to say i'm 100% positive since we're using different cards... but for this example, my sound blaster audigy has a built in firewire port and like yours, it shows up in both places. i have never used firewire and probably never will, and i don't have a bang in device manager. have you tried installing the drivers that came with the card or checking out their website for updated drivers? otherwise, i don't think it will be operational

 

[nihil]

If i recall correctly, the yellow exclaimation point means that there is a driver error. Install the newest drivers for the card and then see what happens.

 

[tom3]

The problem is that the card came with no drivers. It's supposed to use the built-in drivers in WIndows XP. Any other ideas?

 

[tom3]

up!