USB problems on 8.0-STABLE

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday 12 January 2010 5:09:38 pm Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 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.

Same here.  I suspect the problem is in apcupsd.conf.  This is what I am 
using:

UPSCABLE usb                                                                    
UPSTYPE usb                                                                     
DEVICE                                                                          

-- 
John Baldwin