Re: USB (internally fixed) card reader questions

From: Daniel Eischen <deischen_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 10:25:02 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 30 May 2009, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Sat, 30 May 2009, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>
>> On Saturday 30 May 2009, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>>> On Sat, 30 May 2009, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> 
>>> It is not just USB flash cards.  I have similar problem with
>>> external USB disk drives.  See earlier (unanswered) posting:
>>>
>>>    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-May/006964.html
>>> 
>>> And usbconfig(8) could be a little more helpful (the commands
>>> could use a description for what they do).
>> 
>> I'm not sure who is at fault, USB or hald. It looks to me like hald does 
>> not
>> detect that the flash card is plugged in during startup, and does not mount
>> it.
>
> Is hald needed for this?  I am not currently running X because
> it doesn't work any longer with my Intel 945GM chipset.
>
> I will try removing hald from the equation.

Hmm, how about that!  Removing hald (and dbus) solved the
problem.  I can attach and detach the external drive without
any problems.

I did have to add a quirk for the device (I'll send you
a diff privately for review).

-- 
DE
Received on Sat May 30 2009 - 12:25:05 UTC

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