USB detection problems

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Fri Nov 11 10:15:34 PST 2005


Hans Petter Selasky wrote:

>On Friday 11 November 2005 07:40, Andrew Kilpatrick wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm having some USB problems with an embedded system that I'm building.
>>The system uses a VIA Mini-ITX CLE266-based board running FreeBSD 5.4 It
>>has two USB devices:
>>
>>- internal to serial interface - using uftdi/ucom
>>- external port for USB mass storage (flash keychain)
>>
>>Problem #1:
>>
>>- When the USB mass storage device is plugged in before the system is
>>powered on, the internal serial interface doesn't get detected, causing
>>the system to not work.
>>
>>- If the mass storage device is plugged in after the system is booted,
>>it works fine and so does the serial interface.
>>
>>
>>Problem #2:
>>
>>- When the system is booted with both devices installed, neither device
>>gets detected. I need the mass storage device to be detected during
>>startup because it is used for providing software updates to the system,
>>and this will hopefully happen in rc.local.
>>
>>It seems like these two problems are related, but I'm not sure. All I
>>have in my /boot/loader.conf is:
>>
>>uftdi_load="YES"
>>
>>I've tried usb_load, umass_load, etc. with no change. I don't have any
>>entries for the mass storage device (which appears on da0) in my fstab
>>as I am using mtools to access the raw device.
>>
>>Please help!
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Maybe you want to try:
>
>Download the three files below into a new directory and type 
>"make install"  (to uninstall type "make deinstall")
>http://home.c2i.net/hselasky/isdn4bsd/privat/usb/Makefile
>http://home.c2i.net/hselasky/isdn4bsd/privat/usb/new_usb_1_5_4.diff.bz2
>http://home.c2i.net/hselasky/isdn4bsd/privat/usb/new_usb_1_5_4.tar.bz2
>
>Type "make help" to get more help.
>
>
>My USB driver will automatically re-probe all USB drivers when you load a new 
>USB module. Be aware that you have to rebuild the kernel and all USB modules 
>after the install.
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>

and report back!

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