What operating system are you running? If you're running Windows XP, go to control panel, then double click on Network Connections.

What do you see?

On the system I had with a firewire card in a PCI slot, there was a solid horizontal line dividing the space into two parts: ethernet networking and firewire networking.

In the system with firewire built into the motherboard, there is "local area network, realtek" (ethernet) "1394 connection net adapter" (firewire).

As I understand it every decide on the firewire bus has an identification, same as ethernet. So ... what are you saying?

Calvin