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Date:      Sat, 30 Jun 2012 13:49:58 +0700
From:      Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
Cc:        Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Subject:   Re: no keyboard after booting r235646 in laptop FS Amilo D 7830
Message-ID:  <201206301349.58930.erich@alogreentechnologies.com>
In-Reply-To: <20120630062533.GA2666@tinyCurrent>
References:  <20120629133422.GA2233@tiny.Sisis.de> <201206291645.57359.hselasky@c2i.net> <20120630062533.GA2666@tinyCurrent>

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Hi,

On Saturday, June 30, 2012 01:25:33 PM Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El d=EDa Friday, June 29, 2012 a las 04:45:57PM +0200, Hans Petter Selask=
y escribi=F3:
>=20
> > On Friday 29 June 2012 15:34:23 Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >=20
> > > I have a boot-able USB key with r235646 which works fine in all my
> > > laptops so far; today I got as a gift an older FS Amilo D 7830 which =
has
> > > enough resources to use it as new build machine (1 GByte RAM, 80 GByte
> > > disk). I booted  it with from the USB key and after the system is up =
it
> > > does not echo or react on any key-press; before booting the keys are
> > > working, for example in the menu to boot into single user etc.
> > >=20
> > > What could be the problem?
> > >=20
> > > I will later configure that the USB booted system brings Ethernet and
> > > SSH up, maybe I can see something when I can login via SSH...
>=20
> I have just for beeing curios booted an older USB key with r214444
> (from October 2010) and the keyboard just works as it should;
>=20
I have had a problem like this before. I have had to stick with an older Fr=
eeBSD version on this machine.

Can you try FreeBSD 7.4 or 8.3?

It is sad to say but some times support for older hardware gets cut out for=
 whatever reason.

Erich



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