From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 14 18:46:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C26E1065670 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:46:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C52F8FC13 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:46:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9EIkja7073944; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:46:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n9EIkjc0073941; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:46:45 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:46:45 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: <1255542419.22880.131.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Message-ID: References: <1255542419.22880.131.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.2 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:46:45 -0600 (MDT) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why does hal think my USB devices are fixed? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:46:46 -0000 On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 11:04 -0600, Warren Block wrote: >> Fixed as opposed to removable. hal used to see these USB >> devices--USB memory sticks, memory cards in a reader--as removable >> devices. Which they are. >> >> Same computer, same config that used to automount these devices as >> removable, but now FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 and hal says they are fixed devices: >> >> org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed no <-- (action, result). >> >> Is this due to the USB system? > > I have stopped development of hal-0.5.11. I have put a lot of work into > the upcoming 0.5.13 release to fix numerous issues with USB detection. > I have been getting good results on -CURRENT with various USB sticks. > You may want to give that a try. You can get the port from the ports > module at http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi . That's a definite improvement. USB sticks work fine, or at least the three I have here work fine. The memory card reader still comes up as fixed. This is a Sandisk SDDRX3-3in1 with multiple slots. da0 and da1 always come up, along with the s1 slice of whichever memory card is loaded. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA