Rasberry Pi 4 has no USB

Peter Cornelius pcc at gmx.net
Sun Feb 28 18:32:36 UTC 2021


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G'day, Carl,
 
On 2/28/21 11:26 AM, Carl Johnson wrote:
> I have an 8GB RPi 4B that I am trying out, but it has no USB response at
> all.  [...]
 
I second the suggestion to do a brief trial with Raspbian or so.  I currently run mine under -current as below, but can confirm that I have been able to run it since 13 with USB keyboard and mouse. I currenly am logged in via the net, so without further USB devices, at least the hubs should be present:
 
[root at rpi4 ~]# usbconfig  
ugen0.1: <0x1106 XHCI root HUB> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=SUPER (5.0Gbps) pwr=SAVE (0mA)
ugen0.2: <vendor 0x2109 USB2.0 Hub> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=SAVE (100mA)
 
[root at rpi4 ~]# uname -a
FreeBSD rpi4 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #1: Tue Feb 23 02:30:31 UTC 2021     root at rpi4:/usr/obj/usr/src/arm64.aarch64/sys/GENERIC  arm64
 
I can share a 14.0 image I used to initially boot if you have somewhere to push it (FreeBSD-aarch64-14.0-GENERIC-a63eae65ff8-RaspberryPi4.img, seven and a half gig, roughly; an xz. I'd expect at around two).
 
I did, though, have to do a couple of tries with Raspbian initially to put a recent firmware onto my RPI4B8GB.
 
HOWEVER.
 
I also have an odd observation which is that there is NO OTHER USB device BUT the above and my mouse/keyboard. This is quite odd since I do have more devices connected (most notably a umass JMicron-JMS561-based device [1]) and naively hoped that also on arm, USB devices would at least show up as ugen-something. Well, at least keyboard and mouse did work, did they not?
 
I did boot with rasbian, all comes to life instantly and beautifully. I even was able to update some firmware on the JMS-thingo, see the disks, all blinkenlights there. Back to FreeBSD -- again, silence. I now really am scratching my head and also have run out of ideas... though kind of luxury, compared to you, I guess.
 
Any help appreciated, and Carl, as written, if you want my image, where should I put it?
 
Cheers,
 
Peter.
 
[1] https://www.jmicron.com/file/download/1033/JMS561_Product+Brief.pdf


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