Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:17:15 -0500 From: Craig Boston <cb@severious.net> To: Graham Bentley <admin@cpcnw.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB Phone Charging Message-ID: <20070806201702.GA16758@nowhere> In-Reply-To: <20070806100825.GB893@cpcnw.co.uk> References: <20070806100825.GB893@cpcnw.co.uk>
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On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 11:08:25AM +0100, Graham Bentley wrote: > My Blackberry mobile phone refuses to charge from USB > when logged into FreeBSD. For some reason that I'm not 100% clear on, the USB configuration has to be activated before the blackberry will charge. My first thought was that the port would go into a power-save mode if there was no driver attached. However those little USB lamps and such manage to bleed quite a bit of power off the port and don't require a driver, so I'm not so sure... In any case, OpenBSD has a dummy driver that I ported over a while back. It's in my local tree; here is a copy that's been extracted so that it can be compiled standalone: http://www.severious.net/uberry.tar.gz Just extract the tarball, cd into the uberry dir, and run 'make'. It will create a .ko file that you can put in your /boot/modules/. Load it like any other kernel module and you should be good the next time you plug it in. Craig
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