Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:36:34 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Alexander Pohoyda <alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with built-in USB memory card reader Message-ID: <44sles6jpp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200701012217.l01MHciY000672@oak.pohoyda.family> (Alexander Pohoyda's message of "Mon, 1 Jan 2007 23:17:38 %2B0100 (CET)") References: <200701012217.l01MHciY000672@oak.pohoyda.family>
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Alexander Pohoyda <alexander.pohoyda@gmx.net> 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.]
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