Auto execute usbconfig at boot to enable USB NIC

[Grillmeister]

Hi everyone!

In order to enable the system to automatically reboot and startup properly after a shutdown
I would like to execute the following command usbconfig -d ugen0.2 set_config 1 everytime the system boots.

I tried to include something like this <shellcmd>usbconfig -d ugen0.2 set_config 1<shellcmd> right above <system> in the config.xml file. However it triggered lots of errors during boot so that I had to remove the line again.

Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks Grillmeister

PS. I know that USB NICs are not a prefered solution but I need to stick with them because of the lack of alterntives for my Intel NUC.

[stephenw10]

You probably can do something like that but FreeBSD has a better solution built in for setting the config index on a device:
https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=usb_quirk#LOADER_TUNABLE

So get the product and vendor IDs from your device using usbconfig -d ugen0.2 dump_device_desc then create the file /boot/loader.conf.local and add to it:

hw.usb.quirk.0="VID PID 0 0xffff UQ_CFG_INDEX_1"

Then that device will always come up with config index 1 whenever it's attached.

Steve