Belkin Firewire Hub Not working

I purchased a Belkin Firewire 6-Port Hub unit and plugged all of my firewire gear into it and it is not working. The unit is glowing green and is connected to my iMac so that is all good.
I read the back of the package and it says the following....
To use the hub your computer must feature a built in firewire host adapter or be equipped with a firewire host adapter upgrade card.
Does the Intel Core 2 Duo based iMac have either one of these? Could this be my problem?

I had one external hard drive plugged in (with its own power supply), my Digi002 Rack plugged in (with its own power supply) and a cable to my camcorder. I turned my hard drive on and the icon would not appear. I just unplugged everything and now the hard drive works. I guess I will just take the belkin back or sell it on amazon.
I have a belkin usb hub and that thing works great! I guess the firewire hubs are kind of finiky.
There really was not exact place to plug the firewire cable into the hub that connects to the computer, unlike the usb hub. I thought that a bit odd. Perhaps I pluggede the cable from the computer into the wrong spot on the hub so the hub was not recognized by the computer?

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Dear Belkin Customer,
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I regret to tell you that we do not have any available drivers for the Latest MAC Operating System 10.7.1. Since, the Belkin product F5L009 has become an Obsolete product. We once again regret for your inconvenience.
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