From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 13:11:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dada.it (mail2.dada.it [195.110.96.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9067F37B423 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 13:11:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ale@unixmania.net) Received: (qmail 25231 invoked from network); 9 May 2001 19:59:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO libero.sunshine.ale) (195.110.114.252) by mail.dada.it with SMTP; 9 May 2001 19:59:53 -0000 Received: by libero.sunshine.ale (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 656ED5ECA; Wed, 9 May 2001 21:59:55 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 21:59:55 +0200 From: Alessandro de Manzano To: Andrew Hesford Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB keyboard (MS) Message-ID: <20010509215955.C11353@libero.sunshine.ale> Reply-To: Alessandro de Manzano References: <20010509145319.A88778@cec.wustl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010509145319.A88778@cec.wustl.edu>; from ajh3@usrlib.org on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:53:19PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:53:19PM -0500, Andrew Hesford wrote: > place for a keyboard and mouse is on a dedicated bus. Plus, unless it's > a simple misconfiguration, one stage of the bootloader doesn't > recognize USB keyboards. That means you can't interrupt boot and get a > prompt. Many BIOSs can "emulate" a PS/2 keyboard from an USB one if configured so (and there is not real PS/2 kbd). It's called something like "USB Kbd support: legacy" AFAIR. -- bye! Ale ale@unixmania.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message