USB Problem on a HP Compaq DC7600

Robert Nicholson nicholson.robert at gmail.com
Tue Aug 28 02:35:54 PDT 2007


It uses an ICH7 southbridge.

Any ideas?

On 8/28/07, Predrag Punosevac <punosevac at math.arizona.edu > wrote:
>
> You find the specification of your mother board and the south bridge
> chip set should be listed. Should be included in computer documentation
> or go to web site of Compaq and check. That is one of the key
> specifications
> of your mother board. If I remember well the  south bridge  chip set is
> in charge with your USB. We could check right away against
> hardware compatibility list if there is really some issue with your chip
> set. Since you are really running and older version of FreeBSD
> and your Compact might be brand new maybe there is some issue.  I hope
> more knowledgeable  get involved in our discussion.
>
> Why did you post your question in multimedia? Try also posting it on
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org.
>
>
>
> Robert Nicholson wrote:
> > Hi Predrag,
> >
> > Thank you for your mail.
> >
> > I installed FreeBSD 6.0 since I was instructed to do so because we
> > want to test the network  testing tools that we develop at work
> > specifically for systems running FreeBSD 6.0 as many of our customers
> > still use FBSD 6.0
> >
> > I am not auto mounting the drives.
> >
> > I am trying to mount the drive manually but /dev/da* does not get
> > created automatically when the drive is plugged in to the USB slot.
> > There is no message in dmesg or in /var/log/messages either.
> >
> > Yes I do have usbd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf
> >
> > How do you find out which bridge chipset it is?
> >
> > Thanks.
> > Michael.
> >
> > On 8/28/07, * Predrag Punosevac* <punosevac at math.arizona.edu
> > <mailto:punosevac at math.arizona.edu>> wrote:
> >
> >     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.
> >
> >
>
>


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