Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare! = (VIA USB problem?)
Rob, Does your motherboard use a VIA chip for its USB? From what I have heard, many VIA USB implementations from a few years ago were very buggy, particularly with scanners. I have an old Asus A7V motherboard that works fine with a USB keyboard and mouse through a KVM (I'm using it now) but on Windows at least, a few years ago, I was unable to get any of several scanners to work. It would crap out exactly as you are describing. After much hand-wrangling I finally figured out that the motherboard's USB implementation was funky, and an el-cheapo add-in USB card quickly solved the problem. Evidently this problem was *quite* common on older hardware that used these VIA all-in-one IO chips... You might also want to try a BIOS upgrade. Don't blame it on FreeBSD unless you are sure that the hardware is not at fault. And this particular fault might be one that doesnt show up frequently with other applications. Scanners are pretty demanding on the USB bus... Nicholas ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using scanner with FreeBSD. A nightmare! = (VIA USB problem?)
Nicholas Jackson wrote: Rob, Does your motherboard use a VIA chip for its USB? Thanks for the suggestion. I'm sort of aware of these VIA vs. USB trouble. A friend of mine has a mass-storage stick for USB, but his FreeBSD hangs when unmounting this device. He has a VIA chip. I don't so the mass-storage stick works with my FreeBSD! Here is what I have; grep USB controller /var/run/dmesg.boot: uhci0: Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-A port 0xbc00-0xbc1f irq 2 at device 29.0 on pci0 usb0: Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-A on uhci0 uhci1: Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-B port 0xb000-0xb01f irq 5 at device 29.1 on pci0 usb1: Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-B on uhci1 uhci2: Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-C port 0xb400-0xb41f irq 6 at device 29.2 on pci0 usb2: Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-C on uhci2 uhci3: Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-D port 0xb800-0xb81f irq 2 at device 29.3 on pci0 usb3: Intel 82801EB (ICH5) USB controller USB-D on uhci3 pci0: USB controller at 29.7 irq 9 You might also want to try a BIOS upgrade. Would you still recommend this with above chip? (What is my BIOS? Can I find out without having to reboot?) Don't blame it on FreeBSD unless you are sure that the hardware is not at fault. And this particular fault might be one that doesnt show up frequently with other applications. Scanners are pretty demanding on the USB bus... I try not to blame anyone; I was confused and frustrated by the fact that my collegues use the same scanner on a Windows box and have it setup in matter of minutes, without a hitch. I'm struggling for days, and still it hardly works properly. Rob. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
