Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:36:14 +0100 From: Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: axe(4) and Linksys USB200M question Message-ID: <46E501FE.7050809@tomjudge.com> In-Reply-To: <200709100149.l8A1nhLv018269@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200709100149.l8A1nhLv018269@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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Scott Bennett wrote: > 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? > Hi, Try removing the device from the system then running "kldload if_axe" and then plugging the device back in. It should then be detected correctly. Tom
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