problem with Soekris net5501 and USB hub

[Paul A. Procacci]

Hello,

I recently (just yesterday) had a similar problem with 7-STABLE not 
being able to detect devices attached to a hub.  I immediately upgraded 
to 8-BETA1 and the problem is gone, though I've run into a number of 
other issues unrelated to usb devices.  The sokeris will more than 
likely fair better on FBSD 8 than my multipurpose machine, but it may be 
worth a try.

~Paul

Graham Menhennitt wrote:
> I originally sent this to the Soekris list thinking it was platform 
> specific. I got a couple of replies suggesting that it's a FreeBSD 
> problem instead. So, if anybody can offer any insights, I would most 
> appreciate it.
>
> I have a Soekris net5501 running FreeBSD 7-Stable. I want to connect a 
> number of USB devices to it:
> - a HP Laserjet 1020 printer
> - an APC Back UPS 350 UPS
> - a 6-in-one card reader (not so fussed about this one).
> The Soekris box has only one USB port brought out to a connector on the 
> case, so rather than mod the box to add another port, I thought I would 
> just use an external hub.
>
> If I plug any of the devcies directly into the Soekris's USB port it 
> works fine. However, if I use a USB hub then it doesn't work at all. 
> I've tried it with two different hubs and two different cables. I've 
> tried the hubs both with a plug pack, and being powered from the USB 
> bus. The only thing common to the failures is the Soefkis and freeBSD. 
> The hubs are both USB 2.0 according to their advertising.
>
> The hub itself is recognised (although I don't have the output from
> usbdevs available at the moment). The UPS doesn't ever seem to be
> recognised when connected via the hub - there's nothing in dmesg and
> nothing in usbdevs. Ditto for the 6-in-one card reader - the LED on the
> front of it doesn't even light up.
>
> The printer sometimes gets partially recognised. The output from
> "usbdevs -v" when the printer is connected directly and working properly
> looks like:
>
>      Controller /dev/usb0:
>     addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, OHCI root hub(0x0000), 
> AMD(0x0000), rev 1.00
>      port 1 powered
>      port 2 powered
>      port 3 powered
>      port 4 powered
>     Controller /dev/usb1:
>     addr 1: high speed, self powered, config 1, EHCI root hub(0x0000), 
> AMD(0x0000), rev 1.00
>      port 1 addr 2: high speed, self powered, config 1, HP LaserJet 
> 1020(0x2b17), Hewlett-Packard(0x03f0), rev 1.00
>      port 2 powered
>      port 3 powered
>      port 4 powered
>
> However, if I connect it via the hub, it sometimes doesn't show it at 
> all, while other times it says something like (doing this from memory):
>
>     port 1 addr 2: high speed, self powered, config 1, 0x2b17(0x2b17), 
> vendor 0x03f0(0x03f0), rev 1.00
>
> So, it can see it but it doesn't resolve the vendor or device ids. It 
> looks like the Soekris can see whatever is directly connected to it, but 
>   can't (reliably) see things that more than one step away.
>
> My (custom) kernel has:
>
>     device          usb             # USB Bus (required)
>     device          umass           # Disks/Mass storage - Requires 
> scbus and da
>     device          scbus           # SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
>     device          da              # Direct Access (disks)
>     device          uhci            # UHCI PCI->USB interface
>     device          ohci            # OHCI PCI->USB interface
>     device          ehci            # EHCI PCI->USB interface (USB 2.0)
>     device          ugen            # Generic
>
> So, does anybody have any ideas about how to fix this.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>   Graham
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