Hi Bob
It sounds like you need a powered firewire hub.
Search for "firewire hub" on IIS and you'll find some recent references by Bird and myself. There's a few around and some on ebay occassionally.
If your laptop doesn't have a firewire port, you'll also need a PCMCIA firewire card.
It is very annoying when you get a new camera and can't use it yet.
I ended up selling my firewire one and getting a USB DMK instead, because I didn't want to need any external power to run it.
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