Hardware–Related Bugs

The following hardware–related bugs apply to the Solaris 9 4/04 release.

System Panic Might Occur When USB Device Is Plugged in to USB 2.0 Port (5018218)

When certain USB devices are connected to a system by means of a USB 2.0 port, a race condition might occur. This condition might cause the system to panic.

Workaround: If the system panics, unplug the USB device, then reboot the system.

Support for Newer Digi Edgeport USB to Serial Converters Not Available in Solaris 9 4/04 OS (4900383)

The chip base for the Digi Edgeport USB-to-serial converters has recently changed, even though the new converters have retained the same model number. This change renders the newer converters unsupported in this Solaris OS release.

Support for Edgeport devices with the new chip will be available in a future Solaris release and as a patch.

Workaround: Order the device from the company, Inside Out Networks. When ordering, specify that the device will run on the Solaris OS. Ask for the older 930 unit.

For more information, go to http://www.ionetworks.com.

x86: USBA 1.0 Framework Device Driver for Universal Host Controller Interface Not Available in Solaris 9 4/04 OS (4990411)

The USBA 1.0 framework device driver (usba10_uhci) for the Universal Host Controller Interface (UHCI), is not available in the Solaris 9 4/04 release.

Running the usbconfig script that is available at http://www.sun.com/bigadmin, and specifying USBA 1.0 everywhere on systems with UHCI hardware, will bind all USB ports to the USBA 1.0 framework, with the exception of UHCI ports. This result is unexpected.

The output from the prtconf -D command will display the driver to which a USB host controller and its ports are bound.

Workaround: UHCI ports, if present, are still usable with the original USB framework.