USB problems on 8.0-STABLE

[Steven Friedrich]

On Saturday 09 January 2010 06:11:45 pm Frank wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Steven Friedrich wrote:
> >> USB.
> >>
> >> I'm betting USB and I'm
> >>
> >>> thinking that maybe the driver you used to use hasn't been converted to
> >>> the new USB system in 8-Stable.
> >>
> >> If that's the case it makes sense.  I guess I'll just have to wait until
> >> it's converted.
> >
> > Is it possible to boot one of your machines to an older release of
> > FreeBSD, so you can discover what device driver you had been using, if
> > any.  Or any old logs may have the info.  I haven't had an APC UPS, so
> > I'm unfamiliar with apcupsd.
> 
> Hope this is what you mean.
> 
> On 7.2-STABLE the UPS attached to ugen0.  It is the same now.
> 
> P.S. Per the pkg-message directions I have commented out uhid in the
> kernel config file, compiled and installed.  Is this still necessary?
> 
> --
> Frank
> 
I think someone is going to have to update apcupsd with changes necessary to 
be compatible with FreeBSD 8's new USB arch.

I haven't seen any documentation, white paper, etc., that discusses what 
changes would be needed.  You could try sending an email to the port's 
maintainer...