Comment 55 for bug 6290

I suspect they will fix it in a future Ubuntu release by replacing the kernel drivers ohci1394 + ieee1394 + raw1394 by the kernel drivers firewire-ohci + firewire-core. Presently, those newer drivers are already shipped in Ubuntu's kernel packages in parallel with the older drivers. The older ones are the default and the newer ones can be enabled by editing a respective system configuration file (kernel module blacklist, http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration#How_to_suppress_auto-loading) as administrator.

Well, the other possible workaround on current Ubuntu also requires editing or creating a system configuration file (udev rule file for raw1394, http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#How_to_get_access_to_raw1394_as_unprivileged_user.3F). I doubt that the Ubuntu udev maintainer will suddenly reconsider his preference and re-introduce such a raw1394 rule, therefore expect to have to wait for a next release (Lucid perhaps?) to get this bug fixed by a switch to firewire-core as default kernel driver.