Subject: Re: USB card readers?
To: Brian Buhrow <buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 03/28/2006 10:31:26
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:03:43 -0800, buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org (Brian
Buhrow) wrote:

> 	What happens if you boot with the SD card in place?
> This seems very curious.  I think you're close, though.  I've successfully
> read CF and MMC cards with my multimedia reading device.  I thought MMC
> cards were similar to SD cards, and, in fact, my device shows up as an
> MMC/SD reader.
> 	There was a patch back in September from Nathan W to the USB system
> which addressed the bulk stalled messages, but I'm not sure which branches
> it was applied to.  I thought it was applied to2.1, 2.0  and 3.0. I know
> it's applied to 3.0, but I'm not sure about 2.1. cvsweb.netbsd.org should
> tell you, though.  It's an easy patch to apply, if you don't have it, and
> it makes a world of difference respecting the way USB devices work under

Yes, I asked him privately.  It's in usb_subr 1.130, and it solved a
*lot* of USB problems for me.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb