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Date:      Wed, 9 May 2001 21:59:55 +0200
From:      Alessandro de Manzano <ale@unixmania.net>
To:        Andrew Hesford <ajh3@usrlib.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: USB keyboard (MS)
Message-ID:  <20010509215955.C11353@libero.sunshine.ale>
In-Reply-To: <20010509145319.A88778@cec.wustl.edu>; from ajh3@usrlib.org on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:53:19PM -0500
References:  <m1vgnay59l.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk> <20010509145319.A88778@cec.wustl.edu>

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On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:53:19PM -0500, Andrew Hesford wrote:

> place for a keyboard and mouse is on a dedicated bus. Plus, unless it's
> a simple misconfiguration, one stage of the bootloader doesn't
> recognize USB keyboards. That means you can't interrupt boot and get a
> prompt.

Many BIOSs can "emulate" a PS/2 keyboard from an USB one if configured
so (and there is not real PS/2 kbd).
It's called something like "USB Kbd support: legacy" AFAIR.


-- 

bye!

Ale

ale@unixmania.net

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