differences in USB support between FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x ?

Larry Baird lab at gta.com
Mon Jul 21 10:52:16 PDT 2003


In article <20030721.103827.108269763.imp at bsdimp.com> you wrote:
> In message: <20030721071842.GC58121 at cobweb.example.org>
>            Marco Molteni <molter at tin.it> writes:
> : Any ideas, besides the "compare the USB source between 4.x and 5.x"
> : suggestion? ;-)
> 
> USB hot plugging in 4.x sucks really bad.  it is tolerably ok in 5.x
> for non-weird devices.
5.x seems to have much better support for USB 2.0 as well.  I have
a SanDisk 2.0 USB compact flash reader that just works with 5.1 release.  
So far no amount of kernel hacking has made it work with 4.8.  
Unfortunetly for me I need it to work under 4.8. )-:

Larry

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