[Soekris] Net5501: USB devices & attach/detach events

[Guy F. Boyd]

> From: Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET [mailto:ml at t-b-o-h.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 3:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Soekris] Net5501: USB devices & attach/detach events
> Guy,
> 	It seems there is a current "USB not working right" thread on
> freebsd-questions which I've also chimed in on. Maybe if
> enough people
> state there is a problem, it might be paid attention to.
>

Thanks, but being as it all Does The Right Thing here if the devices aren't
attached via an intervening USB hub, I'm not so sure (yet) that it's a software
issue.

<ot>
 Being a guy who writes some code and builds some modest hardware myself for a
living (and having made a decent career from the backscatter of the herculean
efforts of people like Soren, phk, and Warner Losh) I myself have a hard time
thrashing locally when something's a wee bit out of place.

Frankly (until this incident) my experience with FreeBSD and my Sokeris products
as a whole is that I could just about plug a statically charged *potato* with an
attached USB cable in and ugen(4) would do *something*.

My 5501s otherwise work perfectly with RELENG_6 and a ton of local patches for
the Big Thing That I Connect My 5501 to.

I absolutely do expect to 'gets what I pays for' but the next step forward in
price for the stuff I'm currently doing with a net5501 is about $1700 US/unit
for the code it runs in the same physical space in a case with a CE sticker on
the foot and all the attached I/O. And given time, I'd love to give something
back as long as $AUTHORIZED_COMMITTER doesn't whack me too hard with the
style(9) man page.

Hope you have better luck, me I'm about to start hacking the GPIO header in a
few days. Anybody already considered porting the net5501 GPIO kernel interface
and net5501 GPIO driver stuff from OpenBSD?

</ot>

Guy Boyd
Atlanta GA, USA