From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 12 22:09:41 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54E211065694 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:09:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D3798FC08 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:09:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 27386 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2010 22:09:40 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 12 Jan 2010 22:09:40 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 045155082B; Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:09:38 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Steven Friedrich References: <201001091729.22247.freebsd@insightbb.com> <201001121629.37439.freebsd@insightbb.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:09:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <201001121629.37439.freebsd@insightbb.com> (Steven Friedrich's message of "Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:29:37 -0500") Message-ID: <44bpgzm0v1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB problems on 8.0-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:09:41 -0000 Steven Friedrich 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.