From owner-freebsd-usb@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 24 21:51:24 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E0F911C for ; Sat, 24 May 2014 21:51:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CB751215E for ; Sat, 24 May 2014 21:51:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp118-210-122-100.lns20.adl2.internode.on.net [118.210.122.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id s4OLlmtb030573 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 25 May 2014 07:17:58 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: Do _any_ USB 3.0 cards actually work? Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.2 \(1874\)) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Apple-Mail=_530BB20D-5DE1-4576-9E06-69F8FEADE141"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <8212.1400957008@server1.tristatelogic.com> Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 07:17:48 +0930 Message-Id: <8021B607-B94B-4A2D-8B0A-A63A88094C9D@gsoft.com.au> References: <8212.1400957008@server1.tristatelogic.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1874) X-Spam-Score: 0.163 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD support for USB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 21:51:24 -0000 --Apple-Mail=_530BB20D-5DE1-4576-9E06-69F8FEADE141 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 25 May 2014, at 4:13, Ronald F. Guilmette = wrote: > This is extraoordinarily annoying, as I spend good money to buy this > add-in USB 3.0 card in the hopes that it would solve the problems > that I previously had with FreeBSD and a different USB 3.0 card, > and now it is all useless. >=20 > Does FreeBSD support the "VIA VL800 Chipset" that this add-on card > is alleged to contain? >=20 > Does FreeBSD *ever* work with *any* USB 3.0 equipment? Or is this > just a far off dream? I have 2 USB3 cards, one works and one doesn't, unfortunately I haven't = been able to determine why as yet. > P.S. I know that FreeBSD doesn't have nearly as many people > working on it as Linux does, but I didn't really expect it to > be quite this far behind in terms of driver support for USB 3.0. > I mean how long has USB 3.0 been out now? Five+ years?? This isn't a helpful thing to say when you're using a volunteer project. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --Apple-Mail=_530BB20D-5DE1-4576-9E06-69F8FEADE141 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iD8DBQFTgROE5ZPcIHs/zowRAuo3AJ42Kqf+5KyCgINz25QlgqIpJ0ebQQCeM45Y 9nIZ5IUzezzPl8lzskTNhOM= =eBGE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Apple-Mail=_530BB20D-5DE1-4576-9E06-69F8FEADE141--