FreeBSD and unidentified iPod Touch

[Gary Palmer]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:44:05PM +0200, Zahemszky G?bor wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> My son has got an iPod Touch (3rd generation, 8GB). We van use iTunes
> on Windows, bu we cannot reach it on FreeBSD 8.2R, amd64. When we connect it, we
> got the following output:
> 
> Sep  8 22:22:29 Picasso root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x05ac product 0x1293 bus uhub2
> Sep  8 22:22:29 Picasso kernel: ugen2.2: <Apple Inc.> at usbus2
> 
> # usbconfig
> ...
> ugen2.2: <iPod Apple Inc.> at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON
> 
> # usbconfig -d ugen2.2 dump_device_desc
> ugen2.2: <iPod Apple Inc.> at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON
> 
>   bLength = 0x0012 
>   bDescriptorType = 0x0001 
>   bcdUSB = 0x0200 
>   bDeviceClass = 0x0000 
>   bDeviceSubClass = 0x0000 
>   bDeviceProtocol = 0x0000 
>   bMaxPacketSize0 = 0x0040 
>   idVendor = 0x05ac 
>   idProduct = 0x1293 
>   bcdDevice = 0x0001 
>   iManufacturer = 0x0001  <Apple Inc.>
>   iProduct = 0x0002  <iPod>
>   iSerialNumber = 0x0003  <63160800ecbe33eb705dd1291c8a0f78547ea5b3>
>   bNumConfigurations = 0x0003 
> 
> Is it possible to use some of the usb_quirks, or something other to see that machine az an umass device?

iPod Touch is no longer a mass storage device, unlike earlier iPod models
with the hard drives inside.  It uses a proprietary communications system
for updates from iTunes.

There might be something in ports which allows communication

Regards,

Gary