USB Problem on a HP Compaq DC7600

[Predrag Punosevac]

Out of curiosity why did you install 6.0 version when there is 6.2 
version? Are you trying to do auto mount on usb drive or you mounted 
your pan manually. HAL really had issues until maybe half a year ago. 
The question is which version of HAL you use.
Do you have usbd_enable="YES" in rc.conf file.(usb  deamon)  I do  not 
know if the daemon is behaving differently on older machines.
Try to mount thins manually first. I have intell 945G chipset but that 
is the North Bridge. What is your south bridge Chipset?



Robert Nicholson wrote:
> Predrag, sorry for the mistake.
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just installed FreeBSD 6.0 on a HP Compaq DC7600 Small Form Factor 
> PC at work. It uses an intel 945G chipset. I could not get the 
> broadcom NIC to work so we replaced it with a D-Link NIC and that works.
>
> The other problem is that the four USB ports on the machine are 
> recognized and the /dev/ directory has character devices usb1 to usb4 
> but plugging in any usb drive (including a USB pen drive) causes the 
> system to hang for about 4 seconds and then  the drive is not 
> recognized. There are no /dev/da* devices, no dmesg messages and no 
> /var/log/messages either.
>
> I checked the kernel config. Devices umass, ehci, ohci , uhci, usb. da 
> as well as scbus are all enabled. I am at a loss on how to solve this 
> problem. Please help.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Michael.