Re: USB not working

On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:

> On Monday 25 February 2013 15:32:26 Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>> On Monday 25 February 2013 15:01:24 Daniel Eischen wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>>>> On Sunday 24 February 2013 20:31:52 Daniel Eischen wrote:
>>>>>> Hey, I've got a Dell Inspiron 15R Special Edition and haven't
>>>>>> had working USB since first installing FreeBSD on it.  I'm
>>>>>> currently at r247154.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> When I insert a flash drive (which works fine on my desktop
>>>>>> -current system), it is not recognized.  I've tried multiple
>>>>>> different USB drives (external HDD, flash) that all work
>>>>>> on my desktop, but aren't recognized on me Dell notebook.
>>>>>> This is what is in dmesg:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> xhci_do_command: Command timeout!
>>>>>> usb_alloc_device: device init 2 failed (USB_ERR_TIMEOUT, ignored)
>>>>>> ugen0.2: <Unknown> at usbus0 (disconnected)
>>>>>> uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've got the output of a dmesg, pciconf -lv, and messages
>>>>>>
>>>>>> during insertion with:
>>>>>>    hw.usb.dev.debug=1
>>>>>>    hw.usb.umass.debug=1
>>>>>>    hw.usb.uhub.debug=1
>>>>>>    hw.usb.ugen.debug=1
>>>>>>    hw.usb.xhci.debug=1
>>>>>>
>>>>>> here:
>>>>>>    http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/usb/dmesg.txt
>>>>>>    http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/usb/pciconf.txt
>>>>>>    http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/usb/usb_flash_insertion.tx
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>> Try to set:
>>>>>
>>>>> sysctl hw.usb.xhci.xhci_port_route=-1
>>>>>
>>>>> In /boot/loader.conf
>>>>>
>>>>> I see you have a Pantherpoint chipset, and those have special port
>>>>> routing features.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks, that didn't help.
>>>>
>>>>    $ sysctl hw.usb.xhci.xhci_port_route
>>>>    hw.usb.xhci.xhci_port_route: 1
>>>
>>> It should be minus one.
>>
>> Oops, that blended right in with the '='.  I just tried -1 and it
>> didn't work:
>>
>>    $ sysctl hw.usb.xhci.xhci_port_route
>>    hw.usb.xhci.xhci_port_route: -1
>>
>> Feb 25 09:28:25 rigel kernel: xhci_do_command: Command timeout!
>> Feb 25 09:28:25 rigel kernel: usb_alloc_device: device init 2 failed
>> (USB_ERR_TIMEOUT, ignored) Feb 25 09:28:25 rigel kernel: ugen0.2:
>> <Unknown> at usbus0 (disconnected) Feb 25 09:28:25 rigel kernel:
>> uhub_reattach_port: could not allocate new device
>>
>> Should I reboot just to start fresh?
>
> Hi,
>
> You need to set this in /boot/loader.conf and reboot before you test.

This worked - thanks!

Any chance of getting this to be automatic, without having to
tweak any knobs?

-- 
DE