From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 10 18:53:33 2004 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 3976716A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:53:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from squid12.laughingsquid.net (squid12.laughingsquid.net [66.216.98.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD29A43D46 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:53:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m8905186@ncafe.com) Received: (qmail 16239 invoked from network); 10 Jun 2004 18:53:32 -0000 Received: from adsl-63-192-133-118.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO ncafe.com) (63.192.133.118) by squid12.laughingsquid.net with SMTP; 10 Jun 2004 18:53:32 -0000 Message-ID: <40C8AE3A.1080909@ncafe.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 11:53:46 -0700 From: Nicholas Jackson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040503 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob References: <40C7C47D.7060902@users.sourceforge.net> In-Reply-To: <40C7C47D.7060902@users.sourceforge.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare! = (VIA USB problem?) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: nicholasj@ncafe.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 18:53:33 -0000 Rob, Does your motherboard use a VIA chip for its USB? From what I have heard, many VIA USB implementations from a few years ago were very buggy, particularly with scanners. I have an old Asus A7V motherboard that works fine with a USB keyboard and mouse through a KVM (I'm using it now) but on Windows at least, a few years ago, I was unable to get any of several scanners to work. It would crap out exactly as you are describing. After much hand-wrangling I finally figured out that the motherboard's USB implementation was funky, and an el-cheapo add-in USB card quickly solved the problem. Evidently this problem was *quite* common on older hardware that used these VIA all-in-one IO chips... You might also want to try a BIOS upgrade. Don't blame it on FreeBSD unless you are sure that the hardware is not at fault. And this particular fault might be one that doesnt show up frequently with other applications. Scanners are pretty demanding on the USB bus... Nicholas