The case of the missing USB controllers

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Tue Oct 25 13:09:19 PDT 2005


On Sunday 23 October 2005 11:43 pm, Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 04:41:15AM +0000 I heard the voice of
>
> Bill Paul, and lo! it spake thus:
> > The machine has several USB controllers and FreeBSD likes them just
> > fine -- _when_ it actually manages to detect and attach the
> > controllers correctly. Unfortunately, it very often doesn't.
>
> Interestingly enough, I have a machine that also doesn't get along
> with its USB, but my situation is completely different.  Mine seems to
> be interrupt routing issues.  And not even the fun ACPI-related
> interrupt routing issues that everyone else seems to enjoy...
>
> This is an Intel PR440FX board (dual PPro).  It's got onboard USB, and
> I've got a mouse plugged into it, which I'd really like to use:

Ok, some simple questions.

1) Does it work ok in 4.x?

2) Does it work ok if you disable APIC?

3) Do you have a verbose dmesg and mptable output available somewhere?

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