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I went into a man page by typing man man and then typing /firewire but I keep getting a message that says 'pattern not found'. I have tried every possible solution
If the way I'm doing things is wrong, by searching within a man page, please could you point me to the correct way.
Try searching for 1394 in the man.
For general information try Wikipedia article on Firewire (also known by its standard name IEEE 1394), or your favourite search engine.
man man displays manual page for the man program itself, and the /firewire causes the pager (the program that displays the manual page) to search for the word in the manual - which it doesn't contain. When you want manual on something else, call it with appropriate topic, e.g. man sh to get manual for the shell (system command line interface). You can also try using the apropos utility to search headings of man pages for a specific term.
man, but note that since it comes from FreeBSD not all information therein may be correct for Linux. For general terms like Firewire, USB, SATA, wikipedia (or a search engine) really is a better source to start with (if you want to get some insight).
– peterph
Nov 2 '12 at 18:58
apropos. – Araxia Nov 2 '12 at 17:54