From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 15 22:38:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D0F716A51A for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:38:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jaj13@web.de) Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de (fmmailgate02.web.de [217.72.192.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1946E43D55 for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:38:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jaj13@web.de) Received: from smtp06.web.de (fmsmtp06.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.172]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C7081F0E8E1; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:38:24 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [83.99.27.193] (helo=[10.0.0.11]) by smtp06.web.de with esmtp (WEB.DE 4.107 #114) id 1GOMKF-0008CB-00; Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:38:23 +0200 Message-ID: <450B2B5F.1040504@web.de> Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:38:23 +0200 From: Jona Joachim User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060915) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ograbme References: <224326510.20060915165325@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <224326510.20060915165325@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: jaj13@web.de X-Sender: jaj13@web.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What do I need in FreeBSD 6.1 OS to be able to read a USB Dane/Electric 256 MB thumb drive? 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: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 22:38:25 -0000 ograbme wrote: > Howdy. > > I've been going round and round here trying to simply read a USB thumb > drive. I've searched many web sites, read the various messages on > this list, the Handbook and other sources, but nothing is very clear > to me at the moment. I think I have bits and pieces, but haven't been > able to put together the puzzle yet, soooooo ... > > So here is a clip of my dmesg text ... Note: I haven't included the > whole dmesg output ... if need be, please advise. > I see no references to umass and/or da0 which I have come across in my > readings. In the /dev file there are two devices, usb and usb0, so I > tried mounting each one of these devices separately, but had no luck. > Obviously I'm missing something here, so any reasonably detailed > pointers would be appreciated. > > At the moment I'm not concerned with USB 2.0. LOL! > > Thanks in advance. Do you have a custom built kernel? If so, did you include the umass and da drivers? What does 'kldstat -v | grep umass' say? --jona