External isight does not work via firewire adaptor

my external iSight camera won't work for any application in mountain lion via the firewire 800 400 adaptor ...
any ideas?
many thanks

elvie wrote: ... any ideas?...
Apple's http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
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Mac OSX 10.8.2

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