From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 26 06:51:49 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDFC716A469 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:51:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benfell@lupin.parts-unknown.org) Received: from lupin.parts-unknown.org (lupin.cybernude.org [66.93.170.242]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9B86413C457 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:51:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from benfell@lupin.parts-unknown.org) Received: (qmail 86715 invoked by uid 501); 26 Dec 2007 06:25:08 -0000 Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:25:08 -0800 From: David Benfell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071226062508.GA85141@parts-unknown.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200712212341.44308@aldan> <200712221313.lBMDDx5M036478@lava.sentex.ca> <200712260038.11546@aldan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200712260038.11546@aldan> X-gnupg-public-key: http://www.parts-unknown.org/gnupg/export-0DD1D1E3 X-stardate: [-29]8716.32 X-moon: The Moon is Waning Gibbous (94% of Full) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Subject: Re: usb/umass, devfs: this sucks 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: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 06:51:49 -0000 --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:38:11 -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: >=20 > If we want people to give FreeBSD a try in good faith, it is both profoun= dly=20 > stupid and dishonest on our part to claim, we have a working USB-system..= =2E It=20 > does not matter, how great our buffer-sharing VM is, if a home user can't= =20 > process their photos with a FreeBSD-powered computer. >=20 While I have not experienced difficulty with umass, I would have to comment that as near as I can tell, *nothing* else on USB works. Not my scanner, n= or my Treo. Both have worked intermittently in the recent past, so I believe my configu= ration is not at issue. --=20 David Benfell, LCP benfell@parts-unknown.org --- Resume available at http://www.parts-unknown.org/ NOTE: I sign all messages with GnuPG (0DD1D1E3). --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHcfPEUd+dMw3R0eMRAhM0AJ0QsQ7v//LCpl6muPHIB6McHVqN5wCfV4N4 OdrLOq8rKwyyb+icpsuTnJk= =B1+r -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --CE+1k2dSO48ffgeK--