Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 20:49:43 -0500 (CDT) From: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: axe(4) and Linksys USB200M question Message-ID: <200709100149.l8A1nhLv018269@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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My Dell Inspiron XPS has just one built-in Ethernet port, and I need to
have at least one other. Armed with a printed copy of Section 3.2 of the
FreeBSD 6.2 Harware Notes, I went to the several electronics stores, looking
to find a device on the list of supported devices. Eventually, I found and
bought two Linksys USB200M Compact USB 2.0 Network Adapters, which are listed
in the Hardware Notes as being supported by the axe(4) driver. Comments in
if_axe.c specifically refer to the USB200M as a supported model.
So, thinking I had found what I needed, I hooked one up to a USB port
and booted my FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE system. The kernel did recognize that there
was something attached to the USB port, but the device type was not identified,
and no driver was associated with it, and therefore no axe0 network interface
was created in the kernel. I've also tried connecting the card while the
system was already up and running. Here's the resulting message in
/var/log/messages:
Sep 9 20:35:07 hellas kernel: ugen0: vendor 0x13b1 product 0x0018, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 3
Disconnecting the device yielded the following messages:
Sep 9 20:36:15 hellas kernel: ugen0: at uhub4 port 6 (addr 3) disconnected
Sep 9 20:36:15 hellas kernel: All threads purged from ugen0.3
Sep 9 20:36:15 hellas kernel: All threads purged from ugen0.2
Sep 9 20:36:15 hellas kernel: All threads purged from ugen0.1
Sep 9 20:36:15 hellas kernel: All threads purged from ugen0
Sep 9 20:36:15 hellas kernel: ugen0: detached
Is the Linksys USB200M supported or not? What am I missing here?
Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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