From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 12:31:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA21872 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:31:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA19800 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:28:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from virginia.edu by agora.rdrop.com with smtp (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0v6M7B-00092zC; Thu, 26 Sep 96 12:28 PDT Received: from archive.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa18306; 26 Sep 96 15:28 EDT Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA16632; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:28:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA07292; Thu, 26 Sep 96 15:28:24 EDT Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 15:28:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: Frode Nordahl Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Thinkpad 750C In-Reply-To: <199609261906.VAA24085@login.bigblue.no> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Frode Nordahl wrote: > On Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:19:46 -0400 (EDT), Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote: > > >Hi folks, > > > > I am trying to get 2.1.5 up and going on such a machine. The > >boot floppy boots and I can use the -c option to unconfigure certain > >device probes, but after booting into sysinstall the keyboard becomes > >completely useless. I found some messages in the mailing list archives > >to theeffect that the keyboard is using a PS2 mode and that there were at > >one point some alternate boot floppies around. I could not find these > >anywhere. Could someone give me a pointer please. > > Don't know if this applies to FreeBSD, but using a external keyboard solved the problem in Linux... Not a good > option, but better than none :) > --------------------------------- > Frode Nordahl Did you plug it directly into the laptop? I plugged mine into the docking station and I got exactly the same behavior. Adrian adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, System Administrator --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! NVL, NIIMS and Telemedicine Labs -->>| For an application and information Member: League for Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/