USB woes on freebsd-10.1-i386

[Manish Jain]

Hi,

I installed FreeBSD-10.1-i386 with GNOME on my AMD Athlon computer (3.4 
GHz, 1.75 GB RAM) a couple of months ago. While I am generally happy 
with my OS (to the extent that I hardly ever need to boot into Windows 
XP SP3), there are a couple of USB-related problems that won't go away 
on my system and that I can't fix by myself.

1) My Canon PIXMA MG2470 printer does not print. Although a) all 
necessary ports are installed,  b) print/cups-base has been built with 
libusb, and c) the printer is recognized immediately by the system the 
moment it is switched on, the list of local printers in CUPS 
browser-based configuration is empty. Further, the printer - when 
switched on - shows up at an indeterminate location /dev/usb/2.X.0 (X 
could be 3 or 5 or 6), despite explicitly being hooked to /dev/usb/2.6.0 
in /etc/devfs.rules

2) The APC UPS attached to my system is not able to shut down my system 
in case of a power failure, although apcupsd.conf is configured to 
initiate a system shutdown when battery level falls below 5 minutes 
remaining. Running self-test with acptest succeeds with result PASSED, 
but battery calibration  with apctest fails with the message "Failed to 
read current battery level" despite battery level being 100% and load 
being in the region of 20% (percentage figures as reported by APC 
Powerchute v3.0.2 on Windows XP SP3).

Both printer and UPS work seamlessly under Windows XP SP3.

I am attaching to this message a zip archive containing :

output of 'uname -a'
list of ports installed
latest log of dmesg
copy of /etc/rc.conf


Thanks for any help.


Regards,

Manish Jain
+91-98995-82709