FireWire not recognizing device

I am running 10.5.8 on MacBook Pro. I was successfully using my camcorder and DV cable and everything worked fine. Suddenly my camcorder was no longer recognized (I am not sure if this correlated with a change in firmware or not.) When I go to "Network" the status shows the FireWire is not connected. The camcorder flashes DV-IN, so it seems like the problem is on the computer side. Please Help!!!! Thank you in advance.

Hi,
Do you have any other firewire devices that you can connect to your computer. Try connecting the device with the same cable and see if it is recognised in system profiler, if it does it is the fault is probably on the camera.
Also before you try that, connect your camera, switch it on in VCR mode and then launch i movie.
Good Luck.
DM

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