no usb detection during load

[Peter de Rooij]

On 24 Feb 2006 09:26:10 -0500, Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> Peter de Rooij <peter at derooij.org> writes:
>
> > Well, very little.  FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC does not detect my USB mouse
> > or printer at boot.  It did not recognize a USB thumb drive either
> > until I added the thing to /etc/fstab.  Everything works fine if I
> > plug it in after boot.  (A bit inconvenient for the mouse...)
> >
> > How do I force detection at boot?
> > I already added usbd_load="YES" and ums_load="YES" to loader.conf,
> > with no effect.
> >
> > dmesg attached.
> > Note the detection of ums0 after completion of boot -- that's when I
> > plug it in after logging in.
>
> Hmm.  Strange.  Does usbdevs(8) show it before kernel detection?  [I
> doubt it, but without being able to reproduce it myself, I'm kind of
> grasping at straws...]
>
No, doing usbdevs in a shell (is that what you meant?) doesn't show
anything either.  (It does, of course after re-insertion.)

More symptoms:
- the detection of the usb drive after adding to fstab was a fluke. 
The next few boots it was missing again...
- I have seen the usb mouse and printer appear at boot twice now; each
time after changing boot parameters (boot verbose, boot with ACPI). 
The usb key appear every time(?)
- when the usb mouse is not found there is a 30sec delay after
detecting the keyboard and before the message about failure to
allocate an IRQ for psm0 (no surprise, there's nothing there.)

I am now reinstalling from scratch (not that far back:-)

Cheers, Peter