the usb port is not providing enough juice

Hans Petter Selasky hselasky at c2i.net
Tue Jun 12 07:39:58 UTC 2012


On Tuesday 12 June 2012 09:36:37 Daniel Braniss wrote:
> >  On 11/06/2012, at 22:52, Daniel Braniss wrote:
> > > I can't charge iPad using my FreeBD desctop, iPhone/iPod is ok.
> > > under Linux there is a patch that does some 'magic',
> > > so I was wondering if we have something similar for FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Some googling shows..
> > /usr/ports/sysutils/ipad_charge
> > 
> > (which looks like it tells the ipad to draw more current, not to enable
> > magic bits in the port to supply it so YMMV with various USB hardware)
> 
> It seems to need some twicking, I'll let you know if it workes.
> Thanks,
> 	danny

Hi,

We don't have that quirk in FreeBSD yet. Please make a patch if you want to 
have such a feature.

--HPS


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