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

Josef Karthauser joe at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 22 04:35:48 PDT 2003


On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 10:46:36PM -0000, Larry Baird wrote:
> > 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. )-:
> As a follow up to this problem report.  The problem turned out to be
> the USB hub I was using on my 4.8 box. I would have sworn I tested
> without the hub last week when I first had problems.  But alas I must
> have dreamed I made this test.  All is well under 5.1 and 4.8 with my
> SanDisk USB 2.0 compact flash reader. (-:
> 

I wish that all usb problems that that easy to solve! :)

Joe
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