USB mouse not detected on boot of 7-STABLE

[Luke Dean]

On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:

> Ronny Mandal wrote:
>>> I'm tracking 7-STABLE.
>>> Recently.. within the last month or so..  my simple USB mouse stopped
>>> being detected at boot time.
>>> The /dev/ums0 device simply does not appear unless I unplug the mouse
>>> and plug it back in again.  Then it is detected.
>>> 
>>> I don't even know where to begin looking for answers to this one.
>> 
>> This happens to me also. Strange thing, when I plug the mouse into a
>> port that is connected directly to the motherboard (not via a hub), it
>> is detected. When connected to a hub (the integrated hub on my P5K),
>> it is not. Could it be that FreeBSD fires up the hub after trying to
>> detect the mouse?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Ronny Mandal
>> 
>
> see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=131074
>
> it seems that FreeBSD, at least 7.x, cannot detect appearance of new hardware 
> plugged into external HUB at runtime, it can detect such a hardware only 
> during boot process

I am not using an external hub.
The mouse is not detected during the boot process.
It is only detected if I unplug it and replug it after booting.
It worked fine in 7.x until recently.