USB and 6.1-RELEASE

Rich Demanowski richd at RichDPhoto.com
Sun Jul 16 11:22:28 UTC 2006


I've searched through and browsed the archives, and can't find anything 
that helps me with this.

I've recently gotten my Compaq SR1910NX up and running on FreeBSD 6.1, 
but am having trouble getting it to recognize my SwingDrive umass device 
(USB 2.0, 512MB).  The only thing that's different from this machine's 
from-the-factory configuration is the addition of a Linksys WMP55AG 
wireless card, which is working just fine thanks to the ath driver.

I know the USB controller is working because both my USB keyboard and my 
USB mouse function (though the keyboard (a Happy Hacking Lite 2) is a 
little quirky ... when  I hold down the shift key to type a word in all 
caps, it doubles up the letters LIKEKE THTHIISS sometimes, and I still 
haven't gotten Xorg to recognize the scroll wheel on the mouse).


scbus, da, pass, ohci, uhci, ehci, usb, udbp, ugen, uhid, ukbd, ulpt, 
umass, ums, ural, urio and uscanner are all enabled in the running 
kernel's /usr/src/sys/i386/conf config file.  usbd is not running.  
When  I try to start usbd I get the following:
    No USB host controllers found.

There are no usb* devices listed in /dev.

in dmesg I get the following with regard to ohci0 and ehci0:
    ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> mem 0xfe02f000-0xfe02ffff at 
device 11.0 on pci0
    pcib0: unable to route slot 11 INTA
    ohci0: Could not allocate irq
    device_attach: ohci0 attach returned 6
    ehci0: <EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller> mem 0xfe02e000-0xfe02e0ff 
at device 1 1.1 on pci0
    pcib0: unable to route slot 11 INTB
    ehci0: Could not allocate irq
    device_attach: ehci0 attach returned 6


When I plug the drive into any of the USB ports on the system, nothing 
happens in dmesg or /var/log/messages.  camcontrol devlist lists no devices.

I'm a bit confused as to why my USB keyboard and mouse function, but my 
thumb drive will not.

Any ideas?  Did I miss something in the kernel config?  Do  I need to 
enable something in rc.conf?  According to what's in the FreeBSD 
handbook, this should be working ...


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