From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 10 6:33:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from poseidon.student.umd.edu (poseidon.student.umd.edu [129.2.144.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85B9137B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 06:33:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Received: from glue.umd.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by poseidon.student.umd.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4ADWsr05649; Thu, 10 May 2001 09:32:54 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bfoz@glue.umd.edu) Message-ID: <3AFA9886.9F16A78E@glue.umd.edu> Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 09:32:54 -0400 From: Brandon Fosdick X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Hesford Cc: Alessandro de Manzano , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: USB keyboard (MS) References: <20010509145319.A88778@cec.wustl.edu> <20010509215955.C11353@libero.sunshine.ale> <20010509190140.A89294@cec.wustl.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Andrew Hesford wrote: > > 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. I don't have that problem with my MS Natural KB on a USB port. My BIOS doesn't have a legacy mode either (though I haven't looked in a while). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message