Date: 27 Dec 2003 13:35:22 EST From: Geoff.S.Garen@Dartmouth.EDU (Geoff S. Garen) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: installation with a usb keyboard Message-ID: <26364239@newvixen.Dartmouth.EDU>
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I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.9-stable with a usb keyboard. At = the initial installation prompt (press enter to boot...), my = keyboard works. I can even pause the boot loader to call up a = command prompt. However, once the installation kernel boots, my = keyboard doesn't work anymore. Is there a fix to this? >From reading stuff on the web, I've discovered two suggestions: (1) Use a PS/2 keyboard for installation - your USB keyboard will = work when installation is finished. This doesn't help me because my computer has only USB ports. (2) Enable "legacy / AT keyboard emulation" in BIOS. This doesn't help me because I don't have that option in BIOS. More = importantly, it seems to be on by default, which explains my = ability to use the keyboard at the initial prompt. However, = according to some older posts, it turns off by default once the = FreeBSD kernel loads, because the kernel recognizes USB devices, so = the BIOS senses that AT emulation isn't necessary. This seems like = a supreme irony: because FreeBSD supports USB devices, my USB = device doesn't work. The last posts on this topic were March 2002. Has anything happened = since then? Does anyone know a work-around? If FreeBSD supports USB = devices, why doesn't it support them during installation? Any help much appreciated. Geoff Garen
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