Under FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE, my USB port doesn't seem to work with my printer, my scanner, or my external CD-R burner. The printer is what I most wish were working. I dual-boot, and under Win98SE all three seem to work fine. And FreeBSD seems to work fine as long as there's nothing plugged into the USB port. Can anyone give me some advice on how to get the printer (or anything USB) working?
I have never done anything with /etc/usbd.conf -- am I supposed to? If so, how do I find out all those parameters (device ID, manufacturer...) ? Here's a snippet of dmesg for a normal (quick, happy, printerless) boot: (((NORMAL BOOTUP DMESG))) ... ohci0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> mem 0xfedde000-0xfeddefff irq 9 at device 19.0 on pci0 usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: AcerLabs OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered orm0: <Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcb7ff on isa0 ... (((UNHAPPY BOOT))) If the printer is plugged in to the USB port, there is a pregnant pause (20-30 seconds) after the last uhub0 message, then an extra error message (below). Also, to research this problem, in my kernel I enabled options INVARIANTS, INVARIANT_SUPPORT, and DIAGNOSTIC and fished out one additional error message during the boot-up (also below) (((UNHAPPY DMESG + DIAGNOSTIC STUFF))) ... ohci0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> mem 0xfedde000-0xfeddefff irq 9 at device 19.0 on pci0 usb0: OHCI version 1.0, legacy support usb0: <AcerLabs M5237 (Aladdin-V) USB controller> on ohci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: AcerLabs OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ohci_close_pipe: pipe not empty sed=0xc08d27a0 hd=0x3dc87d0 tl=0x3dc8650 pipe=0xc08d0a00, std=0xc08d47d0 ohci_close_pipe: pipe still not empty uhub0: device problem, disabling port 1 ... Usually the ohci_close_pipe messages do not appear -- they are there thanks to the additional kernel options I enabled. (And if there are some other options I should turn on, or other switches to twiddle, so as to get more debug info, tell me and I'll try it.) When I try my scanner or the CD-R burner I get the same schpiel: a long pause, then the message: uhub0: device problem, disabling port 1 Does anybody know what is going on here? How can I debug this? (((MY COMPUTER'S DETAILS))) I'm running 4.9-RELEASE on a Toshiba Satellite 1625CDT. I have usbd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. The printer (hpdeskjet 940c) is listed under linprinters.org as working with CUPS, hpijs, and so on, so I'd think it could be convinced to work. The scanner is an HP ScanJet 3300C, which is listed in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs.h, so someone somewhere must have gotten it to work. Again, my USB peripherals work under that otherOS whichwas newin '98 . . . perhaps they all signed a treaty with resident of /dev/ad0s1 not to cooperate with any other OS ;-) I notice there's some dodgy stuff (disabled with #if 0) in /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/ulpt.c -- a chunk of code in USB_ATTACH() with the comment that, for unknown reasons, printing fails (just grep for "sigh" in that directory). I also notice the usb_quirks files. Perhaps my peripherals have some quirks that needs to be registered there? Or was the USB-attach code still a bit squishy when 4.9 was released? Would it help to upgrade to 5.X ?? Also, would this question be more appropriate for -mobile? I didn't say anything about lpd or cups, because I presume there's nothing those programs can do until the printer is recognized (and CUPS is installed and runs but it sure enough doesn't see any printer). Thanks for any and all advice! Andrew Predoehl Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
