Re: USB-HEAD wont talk to USB ports

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thanks. That simplified my life :-)

My new Q is frequency -- How often should I get current sources and
upgrade the kernel?

On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 2:43 PM Martin Neitzel
<neitzel%hackett.marshlabs.gaertner.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> > FIRST MY DMESG:
> > [...]
> > It looks like it repeated?
>
> The kernel message ring buffer (that's what dmesg(1) displays) is
> preserved across reboot(8)s/shutdown -r's and accumulates the messages
> even if you reboot into different kernel versions.   A cold start
> (after a -p shutdown) will start with an empty message buffer.
>
> > I did dmesg > /umass1/NETBSD-HEAD*
>
> The standard rc setup saves the current set of boot messages
> in /var/run/dmesg.boot.   This becomes helpful when later kernel
> messages displace the boot msgs in the ring buffer.
>
> > where /umass1 is the mount point for my 4-port USB hub. None of my
> > USB-3.0 ports work. My USB-3.1 (web camera) works, and my nVidia
> > GTX- 680 works inconsistantly.  Any ideas?
>
> Nope.
>
> > If I upgrade to a later version of NetBSD-HEAD, will I need to upgrade
> > the entire system, or only the kernel sources?
>
> Just upgrading your kernel is fine.  A newer kernel will generally
> have no problem with an older user land version.
>
>                                                 Martin Neitzel