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Date:      Tue, 13 Feb 2018 10:52:46 -0800
From:      Lee Brown <leeb@ratnaling.org>
To:        freebsd-usb@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Dell R630 unable to detect USB, can't boot
Message-ID:  <CAFPNf5_ZcAjhdYbnp3rxZwPsv_J7_gwBjbRs5Rd-ZJFtDetviw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <62462b68-2fb9-4e8a-c473-9c1ea9096f09@selasky.org>
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 6:00 AM, Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
wrote:

> On 02/13/18 14:45, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>
>> On 02/04/18 23:47, Lee Brown wrote:
>>
>>> Booting FreeBSD11.1-RELENG from a USB stick, loader works fine keyboard
>>> allows selection, kernel loads and starts OK, gets as far as detecting
>>> USB
>>> devices and stops there.  imgur <https://imgur.com/a/psn0H>; for a
>>> screenshot.  Tried safe mode same occurrence.
>>>
>>> CDROM is via a USB, so that's a no go and I've not had luck booting UEFI
>>> iSCSI nor PXE yet, so I'm stuck without a keyboard (no PS/2 connectors)
>>> or
>>> essentially any boot media.
>>>
>>> For reference Xen 7.2 is running fine so at first blush it's not faulty
>>> hardware.
>>> USB3 mode on and off (ie force USB2) in the BIOS makes no difference.
>>> All Firmwares current.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions on how to move forward with this?  I tried turning on
>>> verbose mode, but I'm not sure how to capture that nor where to look.
>>>
>>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> USB_ERR_TIMEOUT might be an indication of a PCI IRQ issue.
>>
>>
> Try to set:
>
> hw.usb.xhci.use_polling=1
>
> from the loader as a temporary quirk. Then try to dump information about
> IRQ's like "vmstat -i" "dmesg" and so on.
>
> --HPS
>
> Thanks Hans, but unfortunately that made no difference.  Here's my full
loader.conf

vfs.mountroot.timeout="10"
boot_multicons="YES"
boot_serial="YES"
comconsole_speed="115200"
console="comconsole,efi"
kern.cam.boot_delay="10000"
hw.usb.xhci.use_polling=1



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