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Date:      Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:44:31 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, ticso@cicely.de
Subject:   Re: EHCI problem on -current, and unknown devs
Message-ID:  <20061123214431.GW83358@cicely12.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <45660DEF.3010205@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <4564996D.50808@FreeBSD.org> <455C2290.6010907@videotron.ca> <4564F129.70902@FreeBSD.org> <20061123091142.GK83358@cicely12.cicely.de> <45660DEF.3010205@FreeBSD.org>

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On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 01:09:03PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Bernd Walter wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 04:54:01PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> >> Still interested in the unknown devices though, if anyone has insight
> >> into that issue.
> > 
> > USB devices have optional strings for defining product, vendor name
> > (and many more).
> > Either the devices doesn't deliver those strings or the delivered are
> > broken, which is not that uncommon.
> 
> Right on, I guess my question is really, "Given that I have the vendor
> and device IDs in my usbdeves file, why don't they show up in dmesg?

Because all it does is creating defines for drivers to probe
their hardware.

> Is there somewhere else I need to put them?

Well - you can put it into the driver, but there are numberless
devices.

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