Number of USB devices limited?
- Reply: Chris Hill : "Re: Number of USB devices limited?"
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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 22:26:17 UTC
Looking at the FreeBSD handbook, Chapter 13, it looks like the expectation is that I should be able to attach "the maximum of 126 devices". Unfortunately, it seems I'm getting in the low 20s (21 FTDI serial cables, USB keyboard, and mouse), after which I start getting the following in the logs: "Error initializing deviceusb_alloc_device: device init 34 failed (USB_ERR_IOERROR, ignored)" and "uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device". If I look at /dev/ugen*, there are the ugen devices for 0.1->0.33; so its feeling like there may be limit in the serial port driver for the number of /dev/cua* devices, which presently only number cuaU0->cuaU20. So, I'm assuming this may not be a "USB" issue as much as the number of USB serial ports (ucom?) that can be connected. Before I go on a code crawl to figure out how this is failing and if it can be scaled up, I'm curious if anyone is aware of a coded limit for the number of USB serial devices (or USB devices in general) that can be connected before running in to this? I'm looking to push upwards to _maybe_ 40 FTDI devices. -Brian