how do I activate my ieee 1394 port in Windows 11

I'm having the same issue with Yosoo Firewire controller.

I'm using Windows 11 Enterprise as OS, and honestly - this sucks!

The card is not detected at all or visible in Device Manager?! WHY??!

However, if I boot Ubuntu Linux from a USB-stick. I can see that it's there - but then, for some reason, I can only access my Windows drives (NTFS) in R/O-mode, so I can't even use Linux to import my videos and save them on my computer.

Why did Microsoft remove IEEE 1394 support from its OS, to begin with??!

Is there ANY Microsoft representative that can answer the question?

My only option now is reverse engineer a whole OS, its kernel and hack the registry - so that it can DETECT the card so that I can use legacy drivers for Windows 8 and use Adobe Premiere Pro to import the video on my tapes.

Do you have any idea how much work that is? (After weeks of trying to make this work, I honestly don't care if Microsoft says that I'm not allowed to disassemble and reverse engineer Windows OS system files - I've paid a lot of money for all the Enterprise licenses for my company, and I'm going to post a full guide on my blog, so other people can use it to do the same thing.

I have several 100s of DV/miniDV-tapes that I need to digitalize and convert to MOV/MP4 - but no - Microsoft never listens to its customers!

Windows gets just worse and worse for every edition, and I have a bad feeling that it will become a closed-environment OS like the disgusting Apple products. They made the world change motherboards and CPUs because of TPM2.0 - which most people don't even use! Do you have any idea of the environmental impact of billions of computers with precious rare earth minerals being trashed - just because of a stupid chip? Why not make it voluntary? If anyone needs TPM, buy a motherboard with TPM; if not, just let people be!! Why force things we never asked for on us?

Now, I have to go and disassemble, debug and recreate Windows so that I can import my video tapes before they're wiped out irreversibly, adding weeks to my workflow for nothing.

I have the problem, that I am not able to find IEEE 1394 host controller in my device manager.

And I have no clue how to install one. (I alreday tried different donwloads)

Win 11

Thank you for your help

Hi, I'm Robinson, and I’m happy to help you today.

You can use the Legacy IEEE 1394 Firewire drivers that came with Windows.

1-Right-click on Start then click on Device Manager

2-Click to expand the IEEE 1394 host controllers

3-Right-click on the 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller and click on Update Driver

4-Select "Browse my computer for driver software"

5-Then select "Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer" and click on Next

6-A list of 1394 drivers will be shown.

7-Select the default Firewire Driver or if your Firewire card has the VIA Chipset select the VIA 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller

8-Then click on Next to update the driver

9-When finished you should be able to connect your camera

Seems like you're not the only one who's asked about this. 😉 See this information from the Sony website: The i.LINK (IEEE 1394) connection from the camcorder is not recognized by the computer (which includes this: "Sony® digital camcorders are not provided with and do not require special device drivers for i.LINK connectivity. ")

My problem is there is no 1394 OHCI Host Controller in the device manager list. Howev it is in Program Files (x86) folder. How to get it back to Device Manager? It was there last year because everything worked.

Win 11 Pro