Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 06:29:28 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Subject: Re: no keyboard after booting r235646 in laptop FS Amilo D 7830 Message-ID: <201207010629.29148.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> In-Reply-To: <20120630151130.GA1106@tiny.Sisis.de> References: <20120629133422.GA2233@tiny.Sisis.de> <201206301349.58930.erich@alogreentechnologies.com> <20120630151130.GA1106@tiny.Sisis.de>
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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
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