Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 09:29:58 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Manuel Hendel <Manuel.Hendel@easygolucky.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: USB2 with FreeBSD Message-ID: <3C601696.3020405@owt.com> References: <20020205165654.GS88299@he0.easygolucky.de>
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Manuel Hendel wrote: > What's Up with FreeBSD and USB 2, is it supported? Unfortunately I > didn't find anything about that? Has anyone tried this? I have a Nec based USB-2 on a system I call opal. What shows up in dmesg is uhub3: NEC OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ugen0: EPSON EPSON Scanner, rev 2.00/1.01, addr 2 ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard DeskJet 970C, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 3, iclass 7/1 I haven't got the printer to work and won't be using the scanner from the FreeBSD world. All my graphics programs are from Adobe on Win XP. I was expecting dmesg to tell me there were 5 ports but it doesn't. I am going to add a usb Zip drive in the near future and that will probably be the first real use from FreeBSD. So, at this time, I don't have any real information for you. The card is fully recognized by XP but the setup (both Buslink and Epson) allowed me to totally trash a W2K Pro system during the install. I added the USB-2 after I had been using it for awhile. I used to gripe about HP scanner software and thought this was one step backwards. The install was but when it came time to use it, you could see real images on a graphic monitor and it would automatically scan up to 12 images from 2 - 35mm film strips. It even handled a 4" x 5" ektachrome transparency. The jump from an old HP IIcx scanner to the Epson 2450 Photo was really substantial. Scanning a negative doesn't push the bandwidth of the USB-2. You could go out to dinner and get back before the two film strips were scanned. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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