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Date:      Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:51:18 +0100 (BST)
From:      Nick Hibma <n_hibma@qubesoft.com>
To:        "H.Paul Hammann" <hpaul@hammann.com>
Cc:        mobile@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: USB for dummies
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0008201746160.42769-100000@henny.webweaving.org>
In-Reply-To: <14749.61193.564281.80595@elvis.mu.org>

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You have a broken BIOS that does not assign resources to the USB
controller properly. This is not a problem of FreeBSD.

There is a patch available on

	http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/usb/usb.pl

but this patch is controversial as it hacks around it the main issue
which is lack of initialisation.

Nick


On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, H.Paul Hammann wrote:

> 
>     I'm running FreeBSD 4.x-STABLE on an HP OmniBook 900 as of a week
> or so ago.  Recently I tried to get the USB daemon running.  I'm
> having some problems as I describe below.  If there's any
> documentation I'm missing, please point me to it.  If anyone has an
> idea what I can change to make this work, I would greatly appreciate
> any helpful advice.  Thanks a bunch for any help.
> 
>    When I boot I get the following errors:
> 
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> module_register: module usb/uhub already exists!
> linker_file_sysinit "usb.ko" failed to register! 17
> module_register: module uhub/uhub already exists!
> linker_file_sysinit "usb.ko" failed to register! 17
> module_register: module ohci/usb already exists!
> linker_file_sysinit "usb.ko" failed to register! 17
> module_register: module uhci/usb already exists!
> linker_file_sysinit "usb.ko" failed to register! 17
> module_register: module pci/uhci already exists!
> linker_file_sysinit "usb.ko" failed to register! 17
> module_register: module pci/ohci already exists!
> linker_file_sysinit "usb.ko" failed to register! 17
> uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> irq 10 at device 7.2
> on pci0
> uhci0: Could not map ports
> device_probe_and_attach: uhci0 attach returned 6
> uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> irq 10 at device 7.2
> on pci0
> uhci0: Could not map ports
> device_probe_and_attach: uhci0 attach returned 6
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> 
>    When I try to run usbd manually I get:
> 
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> No USB host controllers found
> -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
> 
> 
>    I have the following options in my kernel config file:
> 
> device          uhci
> device          ohci
> device          usb   
> device          ukbd
> device          ums
> options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV
> 
> 
>    I have the following devices made:
> 
> crw-------  1 root  wheel     112,   0 Aug 18 16:16 /dev/kbd0
> crw-------  1 root  wheel     112,   1 Aug 18 16:16 /dev/kbd1
> crw-------  1 root  wheel     111,   0 Aug 18 16:18 /dev/ums0
> crw-rw----  1 root  operator  108, 255 Jul 25 21:12 /dev/usb
> crw-rw----  1 root  operator  108,   0 Aug 18 18:11 /dev/usb0
> 
> 
> 
> Regards, 
> 
> H. Paul Hammann
> hpaul@hammann.com
> 
> 
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