From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 23 22:56:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F2816A4B3 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:56:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web20713.mail.yahoo.com (web20713.mail.yahoo.com [66.163.169.154]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 90CDD43F85 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:56:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ath101a@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030924055642.73347.qmail@web20713.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.219.73.30] by web20713.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:56:42 PDT Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:56:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Thomas To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Multiple USB ethernet devices on one usb port (with hub)? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 05:56:43 -0000 I've got an older Dell Latitude (CPi) laptop that I'm trying to setup as a router/firewall/??? machine. I'm using 5.1-R with a compiled kernel that I'm slowly reducing to the minimum I need. I decided to try using usb ethernet adapters since they seemed so easy. However, the laptop only has one usb port. So, I picked up a cheap 4 port hub so I could connect my two adapters (both netgear FA120 devices). The boot log shows that both devices are recognized. However, only one gets configured properly (it gets an address and actually works). The other adapter can't be configured (at boot time or on the command line). This is whether the devices are plugged in before booting or after. If I try to remove either of them after booting I usually get a kernel panic and a reboot. Am I trying to do something that can't be done (do I need two physical ports on the machine for this to work)? Is this merely a bug in 5.1 that would be fixed if I go to 'CURRENT'? Does anyone have any comments? For completeness I'm appending the relevant lines from my config. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Andy # USB support device uhci # UHCI PCI->USB interface device ohci # OHCI PCI->USB interface device usb # USB Bus (required) #device udbp # USB Double Bulk Pipe devices device ugen # Generic device uhid # "Human Interface Devices" device ukbd # Keyboard device ulpt # Printer device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da # USB Ethernet, requires mii device axe # ASIX Electronics USB ethernet __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com