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[root@dhcp71 root]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:0b.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4610/11 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c900B-TPC [Etherlink XL TPC] (rev 04)
00:0f.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 43)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X (rev 5c)

The firewire cards are detected and configured by Kudzu but you still have to define what you are going to do with these cards. So, the next step, in order to set up FireWire networking, is to modprobe eth1394. A dmesg will show you the following output:

ether1394: $Rev: 546 $ Ben Collins bcollins at  debian.org
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1
ether1394: eth1: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (ohci1394)
ieee1394: Device added: Node[01:1023]  GUID[0011060000009456]  [Linux 
OHCI-1394]

Configuring the cards works just as a normal network card:

- on machine 1
ifconfig eth1 10.0.139.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
- on machine 2
ifconfig eth1 10.0.132.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

Now let's ping the other node:

[root@dhcp71 root]# ping 10.0.139.2
PING 10.0.139.2 (10.0.139.2) from 10.0.139.1 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.0.139.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.659 ms
64 bytes from 10.0.139.2: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.195 ms

--- 10.0.139.2 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% loss, time 1006ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.195/0.427/0.659/0.232 ms

You DID put in the cables, didn't you? ;) Yes it can be that easy to set up FireWire networking. More info on Linux and FireWire, in case you run into troubles, can be found on www.linux1394.org