From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 30 23:29:38 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D87106564A for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:29:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erich@alogreentechnologies.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.224.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA30F8FC15 for ; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:29:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from x220.ovitrap.com ([122.129.201.29]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q5UNTUTV019752; Sat, 30 Jun 2012 17:29:31 -0600 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: ALO Green Technologies To: Matthias Apitz Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 06:29:28 +0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (FreeBSD/10.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.8.3; amd64; ; ) References: <20120629133422.GA2233@tiny.Sisis.de> <201206301349.58930.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> <20120630151130.GA1106@tiny.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20120630151130.GA1106@tiny.Sisis.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <201207010629.29148.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:41:07 +0000 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky Subject: Re: no keyboard after booting r235646 in laptop FS Amilo D 7830 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:29:38 -0000 Hi, On Saturday, June 30, 2012 10:11:31 PM Matthias Apitz wrote: > El d=EDa Saturday, June 30, 2012 a las 01:49:58PM +0700, Erich Dollansky = escribi=F3: >=20 > >=20 > > Can you try FreeBSD 7.4 or 8.3? > >=20 > > It is sad to say but some times support for older hardware gets cut out= for whatever reason. >=20 > The IT guy of my company found this laptop in the attic and because > it has no Wifi, nobody is interested in using it anymore. As I said, > I could make use of it as a build machine and for this it must run CURRENT > and no older versions. I will install the USB booted system to harddisk > and hope when booted from disk and not from USB the keyboard is working. >=20 if 7.4 still runs but not anything after 8.0, it is most likely what I have= written. Some USB hardware is not supported anymore in 8 and later. I would install the old one just to see You will also know wat hwardware i= s used there and how it is supported. This might be the faster route before starting debugging something which is= not there. Erich