From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 3 21:06:08 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 756DD16A40F for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 21:06:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF22513C458 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 21:06:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 03 Jan 2007 21:06:06 -0000 Received: from p54ADC1FD.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO www2.gmx.net) [84.173.193.253] by mail.gmx.net (mp030) with SMTP; 03 Jan 2007 22:06:06 +0100 X-Authenticated: #14602519 Received: from oak.pohoyda.family (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www2.gmx.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l03L65Ea000543 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:06:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from apog@oak.pohoyda.family) Received: (from apog@localhost) by oak.pohoyda.family (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id l03L64pr000540; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:06:04 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from apog) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:06:04 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200701032106.l03L64pr000540@oak.pohoyda.family> From: Alexander Pohoyda To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <44sles6jpp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> (message from Lowell Gilbert on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:36:34 -0500) References: <200701012217.l01MHciY000672@oak.pohoyda.family> <44sles6jpp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: Re: Problem with built-in USB memory card reader X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:06:08 -0000 Lowell Gilbert writes: > 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.] Yes, exactly. If no memory cards were inserted at the boot, only da(4) devices are created and inserting/removing memory cards afterwards has no visible effect. This behavior is well known also for external USB card readers, but those are easily detached/re-attached which triggers their re-scanning. I'm asking because Ms Windows somehow gets the insertion event and mounts the memory card automatically. So that is be possible. Does anybody know how that is done? -- Alexander Pohoyda PGP Key fingerprint: 7F C9 CC 5A 75 CD 89 72 15 54 5F 62 20 23 C6 44