USB2: umass not detected correctly, axe not transmitting

Hans Petter Selasky hselasky at c2i.net
Wed Feb 11 00:52:12 PST 2009


Hi,

On Wednesday 11 February 2009, Hiroharu Tamaru wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an Atom Z530 semi-embedded system and tried the new USB2 stack.
> I found some oddities and decided to report here.
>
> It is running 8.0-CURRENT as of yesterday, and I have GENERIC and USB2
> kernels to test with.  I am testing with two usb devices:
>
> umass0: <JetFlash Mass Storage Device, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2> on
> usbus3 axe0: <ASIX Electronics AX88178, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3> on usbus3
>
> First about the USB memory stick:
>
> 1) I setup a bootable USB memory stick, and this system
>    boots off umass da0 if I have the old USB1 kernel.
>    However, with USB2 kernel, it does not detect da0 at its final stage,
>    and fails to find the root filesystem.
>    I mean that the 'da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0' message is not
>    shown, and it is not listed in the kernel detected list of disks at
>    'mountroot>' prompt (shown by typing '?').

This is a known issue, see:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/USB

>
>
> 2) If I boot from the internal ad0, and plug in this stick it gets
> detected:
>
>
>   however, it does not give the correct contents when read; it does not
>   detect the slices and all.
>

Could you repeat the same "cat" operation with UMASS debugging turned on?

sysctl hw.usb2.umass.debug=-1

>
> Next about the ethernet device:
>
>   This device is detected correctly.
>
> ugen3.3: <ASIX Electronics> at usbus3
> axe0: <ASIX Electronics AX88178, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3> on usbus3
> axe0: PHYADDR 0xe0:0x18
> miibus0: <MII bus> on axe0
> ciphy0: <Cicada VSC8211 10/100/1000TX PHY> PHY 24 on miibus0
> ciphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
> 1000baseT-FDX, auto ue0: <USB Ethernet> on axe0
> ue0: Ethernet address: 00:90:cc:xx:xx:xx
> ue0: link state changed to DOWN
> ue0: link state changed to UP
>
> # ifconfg ue0
> ue0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:90:cc:xx:xx:xx
>         inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active

Turn on debugging:

sysctl hw.usb2.axe.debug=15

And repeat test.

--HPS


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