Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 20:28:22 +0200 From: "Mark Rowlands" <mark.rowlands@mypost.se> To: "Davon Shire" <davon@shires.org>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Status of high-speed usb drivers Message-ID: <BD0E3A5283394E40A6A353103B1C57818021@exchsrv1.mwrwin2k.se>
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>>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=20 >>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Davon Shire >>> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 7:08 PM >>> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>> Subject: Re: Status of high-speed usb drivers >>> Hello, >>> I want to start this email saying I'm a very devoted FreeBSD user. >>> I've been using it a very long time. Did the subscription thing. Etc >>> etc >>>=20 >>> That said, I'd very much like to know where on the horizon do USB=20 >>> 2.0 highspeed drivers sit? I've seen that current is now into 6.0 but=20 >>> from what I've read USB functionality is not even on the agenda. >> ------------------------------=20 >> Message: 21 Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 15:47:12 +0100=20 >> From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net> >> Subject: Re: Status of high-speed usb drivers=20 >> To: Davon Shire <davon@shires.org> >> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>=20 >> Message-ID: <20041018144712.GB19068@lb.tenfour>=20 >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dus-ascii *=20 >> Davon Shire <davon@shires.org> [1044 15:44]: >> It's already in. man 4 ehci. > Perhaps I'm not understanding my difficulty with this. As Mr Davies seems to > think that a man page is going to contain the answer I have asked for in this > post. > Having used FreeBSD for a Very long time I can appreciate Mr Davies research > skills. However this does not in any way answer my question so let me=20 > restate. An unkind soul might suggest then that by now you should have learned to format mail sensibly and ask "good" questions. > I have at no time been able to get High-Speed functionality out of my USB 2.0 > Drives. When the umass driver loads I'm happily informed that I will be=20 > getting essentially fullspeed from the device in question. > ohci, uhci, ehci, umass modules are loaded. Devices hooked directly to ehci=20 > connectors identify which of course they wouldn't if the ehci module didn't=20 > load. > Perhaps the problem is in the umass driver I can't say I know for sure. but=20 > what I do know is I can get High-Speed IO happening on Linux, and in Windows. > But it just does not happen in FreeBSD as recent as 5.3Beta-7 > Now after reading this email. I hope people will realise that I'm not someone > who writes 'I've been using FreeBSD for a very long time.' to mean I just > thought I'd boot up this cool Unix distro called FreeBSD and see if I can > find a bug. > If I'm very much missing something in how USB 2.0 is suppose to function in=20 > Freebsd. Please let me know. I have requested info about this many times and > so many times I get responses very much like Dick Davies gave.=20 Well, the a more effective approach might be might be to post a kernel config, uname -a and a dmesg, examples of what usb devices you are using and what transfer rates you are getting. However, as the user base of usb using developers is pretty small they probably don't have access to the devices you have and so probably your problem doesn't scratch any itch that they have. What I tend to try and avoid is using a bulldozer to take the kids to daycare. In other words Linux is well suited to desktop use with lots of odd funky device support and should I require that, I would probably run some linux variant.=20 My servers run FreeBSD. I'm not trying to be snotty or anything, this is just the way things are. If you have a popular piece of hardware it will probably get support. Good luck - oh and my Pentax Camera doesn't work at all under 'BSD.... nor my usb-bluetooth dongle ;-)
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