USB mouse not detected on boot of 7-STABLE

[Marat N.Afanasyev]

Ronny Mandal wrote:
>> I'm tracking 7-STABLE.
>> Recently.. within the last month or so..  my simple USB mouse stopped
>> being detected at boot time.
>> The /dev/ums0 device simply does not appear unless I unplug the mouse
>> and plug it back in again.  Then it is detected.
>>
>> I don't even know where to begin looking for answers to this one.
> 
> This happens to me also. Strange thing, when I plug the mouse into a
> port that is connected directly to the motherboard (not via a hub), it
> is detected. When connected to a hub (the integrated hub on my P5K),
> it is not. Could it be that FreeBSD fires up the hub after trying to
> detect the mouse?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ronny Mandal
> 

see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=131074

it seems that FreeBSD, at least 7.x, cannot detect appearance of new 
hardware plugged into external HUB at runtime, it can detect such a 
hardware only during boot process

-- 
SY, Marat
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