the usb port is not providing enough juice

[Daniel Braniss]

> 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.
I don't know if this is concidered a quirk :-)
In any case all I had to add is for the program to recognize my ipad (it seems 
to be
an ipad2+3g product id 0x12a2) but so far i can get it work only once:
connect, run ipad_charge
disconnect
connect
and now the device is no longer recognized

> 
> --HPS