Status of high-speed usb drivers

Dick Davies rasputnik at hellooperator.net
Mon Oct 18 12:29:59 PDT 2004


* Davon Shire <davon at shires.org> [1008 18:08]:
> 
> >>Hello,
> >> I want to start this email saying I'm a very devoted FreeBSD user.
> >>I've been using it a very long time. Did the subscription thing. Etc etc
> >>
> >> That said, I'd very much like to know where on the horizon do USB 2.0
> >>highspeed drivers sit? I've seen that current is now into 6.0 but from 
> >>what
> >>I've read USB functionality is not even on the agenda.
> > 
> >
> 
> It's already in. man 4 ehci.
> 
> Perhaps I'm not understanding my difficulty with this. As Mr Davies seems 
> to think that a man page is going to contain the answer I have asked for in 
> this post.

I have used ehci and it worked for me. So I thought it might work for you.
 
> Having used FreeBSD for a Very long time I can appreciate Mr Davies 
> research skills. However this does not in any way answer my question so let 
> me restate.
> 
> I have at no time been able to get High-Speed functionality out of my USB 
> 2.0 Drives. When the umass driver loads I'm happily informed that I will be 
> getting essentially fullspeed from the device in question.
> 
> ohci, uhci, ehci, umass modules are loaded. Devices hooked directly to ehci 
> connectors identify which of course they wouldn't if the ehci module didn't 
> load.

This isn't so much restating as 'posting a different set of information'.

The post I read (quoted above), and all it says is "high speed usb does'nt
work for me". Sorry for not being psychic.

 
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