From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 27 10:35:27 2003 Return-Path: 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 064F716A4CE for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:35:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub4.dartmouth.edu (mailhub4.dartmouth.edu [129.170.17.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2BE943D45 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 10:35:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Geoff.S.Garen@Dartmouth.EDU) Received: from newvixen.Dartmouth.EDU (newvixen.dartmouth.edu [129.170.208.33])hBRIQlCH013775 for ; Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:35:22 -0500 Message-id: <26364239@newvixen.Dartmouth.EDU> Date: 27 Dec 2003 13:35:22 EST From: Geoff.S.Garen@Dartmouth.EDU (Geoff S. Garen) To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: BlitzMail=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=AE?= version 2.6.3b7/blitzserv 3.10b11 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-MailScanner: No virus detected by mailhub4.Dartmouth.EDU Subject: installation with a usb keyboard X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2003 18:35:27 -0000 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