USB and 6.1-RELEASE

[Rich Demanowski]

Micah wrote:
> Rich Demanowski wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It's likely that your BIOS has "legacy" support enabled in which case, 
> as far as FreeBSD is concerned, you actually have a regular keyboard 
> and mouse. That would explain why the mouse and keyboard work while 
> other USB items do not. From the messages you gave, it's clear that 
> FreeBSB is unable to connect to the USB controller. Disabling legacy 
> support in the BIOS may help. Otherwise check your BIOS for other USB 
> related settings and try changing those.
>
Indeed, legacy support is enabled (actually "auto" was the setting in 
the BIOS).  When I disable it, the keyboard and mouse cease functioning, 
as well.  That was the only setting I could find in the BIOS related to USB.

I suppose that means the on-board USB controller is one not supported by 
existing drivers?  Or at least ones not listed in the  GENERIC config on 
which  I based my kernel (all  I added was the ath drivers for my 
wireless)?  I don't know which chipset it is, but my guess is, since the 
on-board video and LAN is an nVidia chipset, that the USB controller 
probably is, as well.