From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 11 23:24:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 AFFC316A422 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:24:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from ezekiel.daleco.biz (southernuniform.com [66.76.92.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6D6A43D55 for ; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:23:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [192.168.2.2] ([69.27.149.254]) by ezekiel.daleco.biz (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k1BNMeOq060573; Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:23:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Message-ID: <43EE71B5.8000605@daleco.biz> Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 17:22:29 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erin Sharmahd References: <6e4453640602102251j3349d6eev23ddef8726dad84@mail.gmail.com> <43EDD782.6080507@greenmeadow.ca> <6e4453640602110938r36c8a8dat7e66bd23b3efab90@mail.gmail.com> <5fee5e300602111003u28f9e18ejfc3bb5c9a3bac264@mail.gmail.com> <6e4453640602111103g59e906f2y6906cc876535d8b4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6e4453640602111103g59e906f2y6906cc876535d8b4@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@freebsd.org, luke Subject: Re: I can't mount my USB thumb drive or ipod -- no /dev/da* X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 23:24:08 -0000 Erin Sharmahd wrote: >>try kldstat and see if da.ko is listed. if it isn't, try kldload da >>the problem is that while the machine see the usb device attached, it hasn't >>loaded the driver for the disk, hence the absense of anything in dmesg about >>da0... >> >>good luck. oh, the module might not be called da.ko exactly, but it will >>have a >>similar name. i'm not at my fbsd box now. >> >> > >I think you're probably getting to the right problem, but I'm still >having a few issues. Here's what kldstat shows: > >[amon-re conf] kldstat >Id Refs Address Size Name > 1 13 0xc0400000 63070c kernel > 2 1 0xc0a31000 57c8 snd_ich.ko > 3 2 0xc0a37000 1d408 sound.ko > 4 1 0xc0a55000 2364 accf_http.ko > 5 1 0xc0a58000 a30c if_iwi.ko > 6 16 0xc0a63000 568dc acpi.ko > 7 1 0xc3079000 15000 linux.ko > >I'm not seeing anything similar to da.ko there, but da.ko isn't right, >and in looking through what shows up when I hit tab after kldload, I'm >not seeing anything similar to it. >The interesting thing is, some things like umass are not listed in >kldstat, and yet I know that they're working. Does that mean that >they're built-in instead of modules? or what? (sorry... i'm stll >really new to *bsd). > >Anyway, if anybody knows what the actual name for the module I'm >looking for is, I'd appreciate it. I'm also curious why it's not just >working automagically, like it seems to do for many people. > > > IANAE, but try "atapicam.ko" --- see atapicam(4). My box loads it, and I've no issues with my USB thumb drive, apart from my discovery that if you use usbd.conf to mount it automagically when it's inserted, you can't use usbd.conf to umount it when it's detached ... sort of a "chicken/egg" issue that makes perfect sense in my more lucid moments. >Thanks a ton! >~Erin > > A ton of what? ;-) H.A.N.D.! Kevin Kinsey -- What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.