From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 17: 3: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from usrlib.org (CC2-861.charter-stl.com [24.217.115.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A8037B42C for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 17:03:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@usrlib.org) Received: by usrlib.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 67D85A877; Wed, 9 May 2001 19:01:40 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 19:01:40 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: Alessandro de Manzano Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB keyboard (MS) Message-ID: <20010509190140.A89294@cec.wustl.edu> References: <20010509145319.A88778@cec.wustl.edu> <20010509215955.C11353@libero.sunshine.ale> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010509215955.C11353@libero.sunshine.ale>; from ale@unixmania.net on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:59:55PM +0200 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:59:55PM +0200, Alessandro de Manzano wrote: > 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. Yes, and I had this enabled in my BIOS. Here it is just called "Legacy USB Support". I can enter the BIOS with the USB keyboard, and move around its menus. On the first stage of the bootloader (the MBR slice-selection), I can hit ENTER to terminate the waiting period. But at the second stage, when "autoboot" tells me to hit any key for a prompt (or hit enter to boot immediately), I can't do anything with the keyboard. Once the system is booted, it works just like a normal USB keyboard. I thought that this was because the second-stage bootloader starts ignoring the BIOS, but I can't be sure. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message