Ethernet to Firewire adaptor

Just got the new AEBS and its great -- I was wondering if there was an adaptor or better yet an adaptor cable available where I could connect my 250 Gig firewire drive (w/ 2 FW 800 ports, 1 FW 400 port and 1 SATA port) to the Extreme so I could have it "networked"?
MacBook Pro 2 ghz   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   2 GIG RAM

So does that mean that there are neither FW to Ethernet nor FW to USB adaptors?
MacBook Pro 2 ghz   Mac OS X (10.4.8)   2 GIG RAM

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