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From: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
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Subject: Re: VIA VL8xx USB 3.0 controller supported?
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2012 08:07:27 +0100
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On Tuesday 04 December 2012 20:00:20 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> I just recently purchased one of these:
> 
>  http://www.ianker.com/anker-uspeed-use-3.0-pci-express-card/product/68UPPC
> IE-2S20PU
> 
> Given that the ads for it say that it is 100% compatible with the Intel
> xHCI specification, I kind-of had some hope that it would just work with
> FreeBSD... if not older versions then at least with the 9.1-RC3 install
> that I happen to have on one system here at the moment.
> 
> Alas, as far as I can tall, the presence of the thing in the system in
> question is not even noticed by the kernel.  There are no startup dmesg
> messages that seem to even vaguely relate to the thing.  It's like it just
> isn't physically there.
> 
> So what gives?  Are these VIA VL8xx controllers supported by/in FreeBSD or
> not?
> 
> And while we are on the subject, how come most other man pages for most
> other drivers for "controller" type things actually do list the specific
> hardware controllers that they are known to work with, and yet _none_ of
> the USB-related driver man pages (xhci(4), ehci(4), ohci(4), uhci(4))
> apparently bother to do this?

Hi,

There are generic classes for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 and the list of supported 
hardware would be ever growing and unfair.

What does pciconf -lv output?

--HPS