Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 14:01:51 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@qubesoft.com> Cc: "H.Paul Hammann" <hpaul@hammann.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB for dummies Message-ID: <200008201801.e7KI1p656104@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:51:18 BST." <Pine.BSF.4.20.0008201746160.42769-100000@henny.webweaving.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0008201746160.42769-100000@henny.webweaving.org>
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> > You have a broken BIOS that does not assign resources to the USB > controller properly. This is not a problem of FreeBSD. > > There is a patch available on > > http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/usb/usb.pl > > but this patch is controversial as it hacks around it the main issue > which is lack of initialisation. > > Nick This might be completely inapplicable, but here's a bit of trivia for you. In the course of playing around with USB on one of my systems, I managed to break the on-board controller (the @$&*!! pinouts for the USB connectors on the panel are not standard!). So, I went and purchased a PCI OHCI-based USB interface, which I'm using now. If figured that since the on-board USB is busted, I'd disable support for it in the BIOS, hoping to free up an IRQ in the process. The effect of selecting that kept the BIOS from configuring *ALL* the USB controllers, included the one on the PCI bus, rather than the on-board one only. So, there may be some merit in screwing around with the relevent BIOS configuration knobs if that hasn't been done already. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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