My hunch is: it is a type of device that FreeBSD doesn't support, because it comes up solely as a "ugen", meaning generic device. By using various debugging commands like usbconfig and the output from dmesg, you can find out what class of device this is. Typical examples include HID = human interface device for keyboard or mouse, and obviously storage. Every USB device has at least one "class", which tells you what kind of thing it is: a keyboard, a mouse, a printer, a scanner, a storage device, or something else.
Here is a starting point: Find out what class of device this is.
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So the starting point has to be: find out how to "unlock" or authenticate to the device's satisfaction. The issue I see with that is that the term "hardlock" typically applies to authenticated and encrypted devices, which are intentionally designed to not release any information unless you first authenticate. I think what you mean is: you want to copy all the information that is stored in the device out of it.
I actually suspect that it is not a storage device, since most authentication devices don't interact like USB storage (those pretend disk drives), but have only a tiny amount of storage (kilobytes) which are used as part of the security protocols.Īnd when you say "clone", you certainly don't mean that you want to create a physical second copy, which would require re-creating all the hardware. It could also be a pure authentication device, without storage. It could be a storage device, with built-in authentication and encryption. Can you please explain what that "AKS Hardlock" device really is? And what you mean by "clone"?