Connect your camera to the computer, which should have a FireWire IEEE1394a or IEEE1394b slot. Then, in Ubuntu, you only need coriander to check that the camera is recognized and working. If it is not already installed, just install coriander. Then, run it (in old Ubuntu distributions, you may have to run it as sudo):
$ coriander
It will automatically detect all your FireWire cameras, as shown in the following screenshot:
The great thing about coriander is that it also allows us to view the image and configure the camera. Indeed, our advice is to use the coriander package's camera configuration interface and then ...
