usba(7D)

NAME | DESCRIPTION | ATTRIBUTES | SEE ALSO | DIAGNOSTICS

NAME

usba - Solaris USB Architecture (USBA)

DESCRIPTION

USB provides a low-cost means for attaching peripheral devices, including mass-storage devices, keyboards, mice, and printers, to a system. For complete information on USB, go to the USB website at http://www.usb.org.

USB supports 126 hot-pluggable USB devices per USB bus. The maximum data transfer rate is 12 Mbits per second (Mbps).

USB adheres to the Universal Serial Bus 1.1 specification and provides a transport layer abstraction to USB client drivers.

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Architecture	PCI-based systems
Availability	SUNWusb, SUNWusbx

SEE ALSO

hid(7D), hubd(7D), ohci(7D), scsa2usb(7D), uhci(7D), usb_mid(7D), usbprn(7D), usbms(7M)

Universal Serial Bus Specification 1.0 and 1.1.

System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

DIAGNOSTICS

The messages described below may appear on the system console as well as being logged. All messages are formatted in the following manner:

WARNING: Error message...

<name><number>: obsolete driver: usb_pipe_policy is <version> expecting <actual_version>

The driver is using an older revision of USBA. The pipe policy revision used is older and this driver is not supported on the current platform. <name><number> refer to the driver name and its instance number, respectively.

No driver found for device <device_name> (interface <number> node name=<node_name>)

The installed Solaris software does not contain a supported driver for this hardware. <number> is the interface number.

No driver found for device <name>.

The installed Solaris software does not contain a supported driver for this hardware. <name> could be the device path name or the device name.

Onlining <path name> failed (<number>).

The USB device driver could not be brought online due to internal kernel errors. <number> is return value returned due to the failure.

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