Re: USB3 install no workie

2016-09-10 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <6efb4a35-cdbf-c356-1f6d-3d6f0be5b...@selasky.org>, you wrote: >On 09/10/16 04:57, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I've asked in the past why FreeBSD seems to have such problems with >> USB3 devices and controllers, in particul

USB3 install no workie

2016-09-09 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Greetings, I've asked in the past why FreeBSD seems to have such problems with USB3 devices and controllers, in particular, and various people of good will and admirable patience have been kind enough to explain to me the difficulties of trying to write drivers for things where nobody actually

Re: Do _any_ USB 3.0 cards actually work?

2014-05-26 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1405261636170.85...@wonkity.com, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 26 May 2014, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Does FreeBSD *ever* work with *any* USB 3.0 equipment? Or is this Yes it works. Tue, 12 Jun 2012 I filed a success report:

Re: Do _any_ USB 3.0 cards actually work?

2014-05-26 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I have more than a little reason to be suspicious of the motheboard in my #2 desktop system, so I swapped the USB 3.0 PCIe add-in cards that I had here between my two system and then re-ran all of my tests. So now you can find all my test results in these five files:

Test Results (was: Re: Do _any_ USB 3.0 cards actually work?)

2014-05-25 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
As a result of Warren Block's suggestion, I decided to try a number of new and additional tests in order to try to further pin down and/or at least document the current set of USB 3.0 problems I've been grappling with. I have also gathered further information about which chips, specifically are

Do _any_ USB 3.0 cards actually work?

2014-05-24 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I onw a 1TB HGST laptop drive. This has been installed into a Patroit[tm] brand Gauntlet II external USB 3.0 enclosure. This drive has had all built-in diagnostics run on it, and it is perfectly A-OK. It works compltely fine with no problems on multiple Linux systems I have here. The

Re: Do _any_ USB 3.0 cards actually work?

2014-05-24 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 5380eb10.9030...@selasky.org, Hans Petter Selasky h...@selasky.org wrote: On 05/24/14 20:43, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Does FreeBSD support the VIA VL800 Chipset that this add-on card is alleged to contain? Does FreeBSD *ever* work with *any* USB 3.0 equipment? Or is this just

Re: Do _any_ USB 3.0 cards actually work?

2014-05-24 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 8021b607-b94b-4a2d-8b0a-a63a88094...@gsoft.com.au, you wrote: On 25 May 2014, at 4:13, Ronald F. Guilmette r...@tristatelogic.com = wrote: This is extraoordinarily annoying, as I spend good money to buy this add-in USB 3.0 card in the hopes that it would solve the problems that I

Re: Do _any_ USB 3.0 cards actually work?

2014-05-24 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1405242010430.97...@wonkity.com, you wrote: On Sat, 24 May 2014, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Does FreeBSD support the VIA VL800 Chipset that this add-on card is alleged to contain? Sorry, no idea. Does FreeBSD *ever* work with *any* USB 3.0 equipment

RALINK RT3572 supported in 9.1-RELEASE ?

2013-05-25 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I have a Trendnet TEW-684UB wireless dual-band USB adapter. Googling around for awhile leads me to believe that this probably contains an Ralink RT3572 chipset. Further googling also leads me to believe that a version of the run(4) driver which should support this chipset was comitted some

Help please... More problems with USB 3.0 (kernel freezes)

2013-03-18 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Back on March 11, I wrote here about the problems I was having with a new Anker[tm] 2-port USB 3.0 PCIe card. After Hans Petter Selasky kindly responded, I believed that I had isolated the problem to just one specific pairing of a specific device and my specific card. Well, it seems now that I

Help, please... USB 3.0 card won't attach again after first detach

2013-03-11 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I have a new PCIe USB 3.0 card. It is basically just like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Uspeed-Superspeed-Express-Connector-Desktops/dp/B005ARQV6U/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8qid=1362999114sr=8-2keywords=anker+USB+3.0 except that mine is the 2 port version, rather than the 4 port version. (But it is

Re: Help, please... USB 3.0 card won't attach again after first detach

2013-03-11 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message 513dec7b.3080...@bitfrost.no, Hans Petter Selasky h...@bitfrost.no wrote: If you plug another USB device like a memory stick, does the same happen? Is your USB HDD self powered? Thank you very much for your questions. I am ashamed to admit that I simply did not stop to think that