From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 27 14:37:52 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7F7216A4CE for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:37:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from node15.coopprint.com (node15.cooperativeprinting.com [208.4.77.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4269E43D45 for ; Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:37:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ryans@gamersimpact.com) Received: (qmail 21951 invoked by uid 0); 27 Oct 2004 12:49:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (63.231.165.205) by node15.coopprint.com with SMTP; 27 Oct 2004 12:49:48 -0000 Message-ID: <417F99CD.3090404@gamersimpact.com> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 07:51:25 -0500 From: Ryan Sommers User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <1098850867.51833.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1098850867.51833.14.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing on a machine with no PS/2 ports (USB only) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:37:53 -0000 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >The more I look into this, the more it looks like I'm screwed. I'm >trying to install FreeBSD 5.3-RC1 from CD on a machine without any PS/2 >ports. All I have is a USB keyboard. Yes, the BIOS has legacy USB >support enabled, and the keyboard works to hit enter at the initial boot >prompt. However, once I'm in sysinstall, I'm out of luck. > >I tried disconnecting the keyboard at boot time to see if I could get a >serial console to do the installation, but that didn't work. The >console was still detected as internal video. Any ideas on how I can >get FreeBSD on this machine (Dell OptiPlex GX280)? Thanks. > >Joe > > Someone is working on a keyboard multiplexor (bruce? I forget) that will handle these cases. Have you tried turning off USB Keyboard Support in the BIOS? I believe what is happening in this situation is your BIOS is emulating the ata keyboard just enough that FreeBSD is detecting it but also detecting the USB keyboard and one is squashing the other. -- Ryan Sommers ryans@gamersimpact.com