axe(4) and Linksys USB200M question

[Tom Judge]

Scott Bennett wrote:
>      My Dell Inspiron XPS has just one built-in Ethernet port, and I need to
> have at least one other.  Armed with a printed copy of Section 3.2 of the
> FreeBSD 6.2 Harware Notes, I went to the several electronics stores, looking
> to find a device on the list of supported devices.  Eventually, I found and
> bought two Linksys USB200M Compact USB 2.0 Network Adapters, which are listed
> in the Hardware Notes as being supported by the axe(4) driver.  Comments in
> if_axe.c specifically refer to the USB200M as a supported model.
>      So, thinking I had found what I needed, I hooked one up to a USB port
> and booted my FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE system.  The kernel did recognize that there
> was something attached to the USB port, but the device type was not identified,
> and no driver was associated with it, and therefore no axe0 network interface
> was created in the kernel.  I've also tried connecting the card while the
> system was already up and running.  Here's the resulting message in
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> Sep  9 20:35:07 hellas kernel: ugen0: vendor 0x13b1 product 0x0018, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3
> 
> Disconnecting the device yielded the following messages:
> 
> Sep  9 20:36:15 hellas kernel: ugen0: at uhub4 port 6 (addr 3) disconnected
> Sep  9 20:36:15 hellas kernel: All threads purged from ugen0.3
> Sep  9 20:36:15 hellas kernel: All threads purged from ugen0.2
> Sep  9 20:36:15 hellas kernel: All threads purged from ugen0.1
> Sep  9 20:36:15 hellas kernel: All threads purged from ugen0
> Sep  9 20:36:15 hellas kernel: ugen0: detached
> 
>      Is the Linksys USB200M supported or not?  What am I missing here?
> 

Hi,

Try removing the device from the system then running "kldload if_axe" 
and then plugging the device back in.  It should then be detected correctly.

Tom