nilay,
it's potentially possible, and I was going to do it, but my plans were put to a halt when fedex stole my ibook in shipping.
You need to get the proper Lucent firewire PHY chip, FW-801.
Go to lucent / agere's site and get the data sheet on that chip.
get the discretes (resistors / capacitors, etc.) as specified on the data sheet.
You'll have to use a low wattage fine point soldering iron to do the surface mount soldering by hand. There's a guy at my workplace who has the $700 soldering equipment to do it like the pro's do. I was going to have him do it.
In a pinch, if you use a pin or needle in a regular low watt iron, with metal jammed in to make up the difference in diameter of the pin to the regular soldering tip, you can do this.
Use an ohm-meter to trace back which pins lead to which points on the logic board for the discretes. This is fairly straightforward, and if the following conditions are met, should work:
1)you have the chip and discretes in properly
2)either you don't have to patch open firmware, or you can get it to load open firmware for the rev.c iBook, or you can alter open firmware on your own. (open firmware is made by Sun, and there are docs available on it)
Contact me if you want some more info on this, I really was gearing up to do it.
Victor Marks
[email protected]
) but it would useless for her, as she doesn't have firewire...
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