USB problems on 8.0-STABLE

[Lowell Gilbert]

Steven Friedrich <freebsd at insightbb.com> writes:

> 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...

Another data point...

I didn't pay much attention to it, but without changing my apcupsd
configuration, it "just worked" after upgrading from RELENG_7 to
RELENG_8, just a couple of days ago.

I'm still running on a GENERIC kernel, but if I trim it down I'll keep
an eye out for problems.