[ltp] looking for firewire bus power

Jim Hughes linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 4 Apr 2004 22:49:06 -0500


As far as I know firewire devices can be used without having the bus power on.  
The only thing is that if you are using a device that draws its power from 
Firewire then you are somewhat limited.

Hope this helps,

Jim Hughes



On Sunday 04 April 2004 19:16, Vincent Touquet wrote:
> As the T41p doesn't have firewire I got myself a cardbus card,
> which has a 12V DC small plug where I can feed the card so it
> can provide bus power (its impossible for the card to provide
> sufficient bus power using the 3.3V it is provided).
>
> Any chance I can get it from somewhere and not involving a wall
> socker ? Those tiny usb fans, what voltage do they run on ?
>
> I hope I'm not limited to using my firewire devices near sockets.
>
> v