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Date:      Tue, 15 Aug 2000 14:29:56 -0500
From:      Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com>
To:        bsdnewbie bsdnewbie <bsdnewbie@hotmail.com>, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: A bug? or NOT!  About FreeBSD 4.1
Message-ID:  <20000815192956.14676.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008151846.LAA42027@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
References:  <200008151846.LAA42027@pike.osd.bsdi.com>

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John Baldwin wrote:
> bsdnewbie bsdnewbie wrote:
> > When boots from the FreeBSD 4.1 CD and "sysinstall" appears, the
> > keyboard losts its function. No matter what I press, there is no
> > response, even the key "caps lock", thoroughly dead. I have
> > downloaded the "iso" file from "ftp.freebsd.org" and the md5sum
> > matched. What is the problem, is this a bug in 4.1, or the new
> > version is not compatible with my machine? The old version 4.0 has
> > no problem! Can anybody help me? Urgent! Thanks in advance.
>
> What kind of keyboard is it? Is it a USB keyboard plugged into an
> Intel USB controller with legacy support enabled?
>
Actually that sounds like the well known ASUS K7 problem...

Try disabling the virus detection in the BIOS. That fixed a problem  
with identical symptoms in my case.

Gerd


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