From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 22:03:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64EEF16A41F for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:03:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itmngr@cooperationireland.org) Received: from smtp1.irishbroadband.ie (smtp1.irishbroadband.ie [62.231.32.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEBBF43D45 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:03:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itmngr@cooperationireland.org) Received: from [62.231.53.178] (helo=mail.cooperationireland.org) by smtp1.irishbroadband.ie with esmtp (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Ewo4L-000MsQ-Kk; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:03:49 +0000 Received: from [10.0.1.20] ([10.0.1.20]) by mail.cooperationireland.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k0BM2h0P029336; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:02:43 GMT (envelope-from itmngr@cooperationireland.org) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Michael Doyle Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:04:15 +0000 To: JK X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=6.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on mail.cooperationireland.org X-CoopIrl-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-CoopIrl-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CoopIrl-MailScanner-From: itmngr@cooperationireland.org X-Scan-Signature: 5d78bcdd0b6429df751511f7ea991b74 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 on Apple's Intel Developer Platform? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:03:53 -0000 On 9 Jan 2006, at 20:41, JK wrote: > I can get the 6.0 CD1 to boot ok on Apple's Intel Developers > Platform but the usb keyboard is not recognized. Do I have to do > something special to use a USB keyboard? There is no PS/2 keyboard > or mouse port on that platform. Is the Boot CD image not recognising the USB port, or not recognising the Apple keyboard? If the latter, then a standard Windows/PC USB keyboard should work. I know that PC keyboards and Apple keyboards have different lay-outs and may act differently. PC keyboards work in a Mac. The converse may not be true (haven't tried it) Mike