From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 12:09:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA05161 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:09:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from login.bigblue.no (root@login.bigblue.no [194.19.68.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA05120 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:09:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eagle.bigblue.no (froden@eagle.bigblue.no [194.19.68.13]) by login.bigblue.no (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA24085; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 21:06:47 +0200 Message-Id: <199609261906.VAA24085@login.bigblue.no> From: "Frode Nordahl" To: "adrian@virginia.edu" Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.org" Date: Thu, 26 Sep 96 21:05:48 Reply-To: "Frode Nordahl" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Frode Nordahl's Registered PMMail 1.52 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Thinkpad 750C Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:19:46 -0400 (EDT), Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote: >Hi folks, > > I am trying to get 2.1.5 up and going on such a machine. The >boot floppy boots and I can use the -c option to unconfigure certain >device probes, but after booting into sysinstall the keyboard becomes >completely useless. I found some messages in the mailing list archives >to theeffect that the keyboard is using a PS2 mode and that there were at >one point some alternate boot floppies around. I could not find these >anywhere. Could someone give me a pointer please. Don't know if this applies to FreeBSD, but using a external keyboard solved the problem in Linux... Not a good option, but better than none :) --------------------------------- Frode Nordahl