Firewire port status on cisco 435HDC?

Is there any advanced diagnostic screen to see what the status of this port might be? I knew how to get to it on the Motorola boxes but can't find anything similar for this new hardware.

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    MacBook - 13" black Early 2008 - running OsX 10.5.8 - currently 1 FW400 port disabled
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