From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 6 21:54:29 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 52B4A16A4BF for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 21:54:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from web41813.mail.yahoo.com (web41813.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.93.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D502E4400F for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 21:54:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billybra2000@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20030907045428.43641.qmail@web41813.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [4.5.56.55] by web41813.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 21:54:28 PDT Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2003 21:54:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Billy Bragg To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: USB keyboard woes 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: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 04:54:29 -0000 For some reason e-mail to this address from my home server just seems to vanish into thin air, so I'm trying again with a Yahoo account] I have a motherboard which has a broken PS/2 connector. I have a PS/2 KVM, and bought a PS/2 to USB adapter for the motherboard. I’d really like to run FreeBSD on this machine, but cannot get the USB-adapted keyboard to work. It works fine in my BIOS setup, and with Linux and Windows, but not with FreeBSD (using 4.8-stable). I have a kernel with USB devices added, have /dev/kbd* entries, and have added “kbdcontrol –k /dev/kbd0 < /dev/console” to /etc/rc.i386, as well as an attach entry in usbd.conf. As far as I can see, the USB keyboard is attached; if I run “kbdcontrol –K < /dev/console” I see: kbd0 ukbd0, type:generic (0) If I try to follow that with a “kbdcontrol –k /dev/kbd0 < /dev/console” I get: kbdcontrol: cannot open /dev/kbd0: Device busy The boot messages show: uhci0: port 0xd400-0xd41f irq 12 at device 7.2 on pci0 usb0: on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ukbd0: Composite USB PS2 Converter USB to PS2 Adaptor v1.09, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2, iclass 3/1 kbd0 at ukbd0 ums0: Composite USB PS2 Converter USB to PS2 Adaptor v1.09, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2, iclass 3/1 ums0: 3 buttons and Z dir. I’ve searched the mailing lists, but haven’t found a solution. Is there one, or should I resign myself to running Linux (which would really suck)? Tx Gram --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software