Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:09:38 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Steven Friedrich <freebsd@insightbb.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB problems on 8.0-STABLE Message-ID: <44bpgzm0v1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <201001121629.37439.freebsd@insightbb.com> (Steven Friedrich's message of "Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:29:37 -0500") References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001081737490.1449@Ace.nina.org> <201001091729.22247.freebsd@insightbb.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1001091806580.1439@Ace.nina.org> <201001121629.37439.freebsd@insightbb.com>
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Steven Friedrich <freebsd@insightbb.com> writes: > On Saturday 09 January 2010 06:11:45 pm Frank wrote: >> On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Steven Friedrich wrote: >> >> USB. >> >> >> >> I'm betting USB and I'm >> >> >> >>> thinking that maybe the driver you used to use hasn't been converted to >> >>> the new USB system in 8-Stable. >> >> >> >> If that's the case it makes sense. I guess I'll just have to wait until >> >> it's converted. >> > >> > Is it possible to boot one of your machines to an older release of >> > FreeBSD, so you can discover what device driver you had been using, if >> > any. Or any old logs may have the info. I haven't had an APC UPS, so >> > I'm unfamiliar with apcupsd. >> >> Hope this is what you mean. >> >> On 7.2-STABLE the UPS attached to ugen0. It is the same now. >> >> P.S. Per the pkg-message directions I have commented out uhid in the >> kernel config file, compiled and installed. Is this still necessary? >> >> -- >> Frank >> > I think someone is going to have to update apcupsd with changes necessary to > be compatible with FreeBSD 8's new USB arch. > > I haven't seen any documentation, white paper, etc., that discusses what > changes would be needed. You could try sending an email to the port's > maintainer... Another data point... I didn't pay much attention to it, but without changing my apcupsd configuration, it "just worked" after upgrading from RELENG_7 to RELENG_8, just a couple of days ago. I'm still running on a GENERIC kernel, but if I trim it down I'll keep an eye out for problems.
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