From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 28 16:17:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD16616A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:17:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F5A743D2D for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:17:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:14:36 -0600 Message-ID: <42482E23.2020703@daleco.biz> Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:17:39 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Huggett References: <20050325150515.9A14F6608@smtp3.att.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <20050325150515.9A14F6608@smtp3.att.ne.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Mar 2005 16:14:36.0823 (UTC) FILETIME=[3C901270:01C533B1] cc: FreeBSD-Newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: legacy USB setting in BIOS X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:17:43 -0000 Matthew Huggett wrote: >Hello, > > >I've been having trouble gettin a USB keyboard to work at all during >installation of FreeBSD 5.3. I've discovered that the only BIOS >setting that makes a difference is enabling/disabling USB legacy >support. Disabling it makes my keyboard totally useless in that I >can't even boot in to my existing Linux. Booting from the Freesbie >live CD gives me a mouse, but no keyboard, so I guess I'm not totally >SOL. Is there anyway to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a system that has no >non-USB mouse/keyboard? > >Thanks, > >Matt > > > To answer your question: yes, I'm *pretty sure* there is. Now, to address the issue at large: you should direct this email to "questions@freebsd.org", because the "newbies" list/forum isn't a] supposed to answer this according to list charter, BION, and b] low-trafficked enough that it's been what, 4 days since you asked and no one has responded? The "more expert" types read questions@, but newbies@ has a low readership, and you can't expect support questions such as this answered.... Now, I seem to recall someone posting this or a very similar question to the questions@ list a few days back, and there is a way ... something in regard to a hint passed to the boot loader via the escape prompt prior to booting the installation program. Search the questions@ archives, and if you don't find the answer, repost your question to the other list and see if you don't have an answer in a few hours instead of a few days.... Good luck! Kevin Kinsey