From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 18:36:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03EE816A412 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:36:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5C1713C461 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:36:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 3719 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2007 18:36:35 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 3 Jan 2007 18:36:35 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 4F5C72842F; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 13:36:34 -0500 (EST) To: Alexander Pohoyda References: <200701012217.l01MHciY000672@oak.pohoyda.family> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:36:34 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200701012217.l01MHciY000672@oak.pohoyda.family> (Alexander Pohoyda's message of "Mon, 1 Jan 2007 23:17:38 +0100 (CET)") Message-ID: <44sles6jpp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with built-in USB memory card reader X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:36:36 -0000 Alexander Pohoyda writes: > Everything works perfect if the system is started with a memory card > inserted into the reader. > > The problem arises when the system is started without the memory card > inserted. Since the reader is built-in (permanently attached to the > motherboard), it is detected by the system at startup and no umass > device is created. Inserting a memory card at some later time has no > visible effect whatsoever. > > I'm using the 5.4 release. Is there a solution for this? USB handling would be better in a more recent release of FreeBSD, but I think you should be getting the basic da(4) device, just not the slices (which aren't there yet) if the medium isn't available at boot. Is that the case? [I haven't done this in a while, and don't have access to a card reader at the moment.]