Running FireWire card on laptop?

[JonWormwood]

So my laptop doesn't have FireWire (newer sony, c2d, 4gm ram win7, but no FireWire or Bluetooth WTF)

Would getting a pcie FireWire card for an interface be an issue?

 

[greyskull]

pcie in a laptop?
ya mean an expresscard?

 

[kev]

As Guy said, sounds like you want a pcmcia firewire card http://www.ebuyer.com/product/58971

 

[DominikJW]

I got a Manhattan FW expresscard on a TI chipset and it works well with my Firepod.

 

[allplaydead]

You definitely should get one with the TI chipset, it is far superior.

Here's a relatively cheap one:

http://www.buyextras.com/syie13fiexti.html

 

[SickBoy]

I got a Manhattan FW expresscard on a TI chipset and it works well with my Firepod.

I've used the exact same one on an HP notebook with a Firepod and it had a knack to it: Firepod wouldn't initialize if the FW card was inserted prior to Windows XP booting, cause the card itself would not be recognized by the system. If I inserted the card after the WinXP has booted then the system recognized it and then the Firepod as well...

Not sure if you've ran into something like this