Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2007 13:52:25 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usb/umass, devfs: this sucks Message-ID: <2C4BA76BE60FC029360155FE@paul-schmehls-powerbook59.local> In-Reply-To: <20071226062508.GA85141@parts-unknown.org> References: <200712212341.44308@aldan> <200712221313.lBMDDx5M036478@lava.sentex.ca> <200712260038.11546@aldan> <20071226062508.GA85141@parts-unknown.org>
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--On December 25, 2007 10:25:08 PM -0800 David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:38:11 -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote: >> >> If we want people to give FreeBSD a try in good faith, it is both >> profoundly stupid and dishonest on our part to claim, we have a >> working USB-system... It does not matter, how great our buffer-sharing >> VM is, if a home user can't process their photos with a >> FreeBSD-powered computer. >> To the OP of this thread - generalized statements like this aren't very helpful. I have a USB mouse and a USB keyboard, both of which work fine and always have. I mount USB thumb drives frequently to copy and move files back and forth. I have a USB hard drive that is automounted at boot. None of these devices has ever given me problems. I'm not sure what you're referring to, but I suspect it's the "failure" to automount devices without first doing some configuration or to mount devices when you are not logged in as root. > While I have not experienced difficulty with umass, I would have to > comment that as near as I can tell, *nothing* else on USB works. Not my > scanner, nor my Treo. > > Both have worked intermittently in the recent past, so I believe my > configuration is not at issue. These I can't comment on, because I don't use them, although I note that there is a uscanner driver that *should* work for most scanners. Man (4) uscanner has a lenghty list of supported scanners. You might check to see if yours is on the list. Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu) Senior Information Security Analyst The University of Texas at Dallas http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
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