From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 17 08:21:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 0422B16A41F for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:21:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 557CB43D45 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 08:21:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jBH8LWno078481; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:21:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id jBH8LVIJ078480; Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:21:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2005 00:21:31 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Anish Mistry Message-ID: <20051217082131.GA78299@thought.org> References: <20051217010221.GA60469@thought.org> <200512162019.49001.mistry.7@osu.edu> <20051217043107.GB61448@thought.org> <200512170239.21203.mistry.7@osu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200512170239.21203.mistry.7@osu.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing 19 years of service to the Unix community Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP ScanJet 4100c? 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, 17 Dec 2005 08:21:34 -0000 On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 02:39:07AM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: > On Friday 16 December 2005 11:31 pm, you wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 08:19:21PM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: > > > On Friday 16 December 2005 08:02 pm, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Do I have to build it into the kernel or what? IOW, what's the > > deal with USB stuff? I've had enough headbanging with ye olden > > COM[1234] ports. But it's time to get my fingers wet. > Depending on what version of FreeBSD you're running you might want to > build usb into the kernel. If you just run "kldload uscanner" it > should automatically load the usb kernel module, if it's not already > in the default kernel, which I think it may be. The usb stuff should > work fine as long as you don't have some funky chipset. 6.0-RELEASE > should have pretty good support for usb. > I just tried a "lkdload uscanner" on my ThinkPad running 5.4 and got kldload: can't load uscanner: File exists In the USB section in /boot/loader.conf, everything was set to NO. Which of these options should I switch to YES. ---This goes for my other FBSD servers too. I've never used anything usb so I'll check my KERNEL config files too. All my hardware is fairly standard. Intel, HP, whatever ThinkPad has, and whatever's on the USB 2.0 m'board on my just-shipped AMD system. I stick to the Keep It Simple Sir philosophy, so if I need to buy a USB board I well. Meanwhile, if you have any feedback about the /boot/loader.conf and KERNEL config files, I'd like to hear them. thanks! gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix