Can't use USB keyboard during boot menu

Renato Botelho rbgarga at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 11:19:15 UTC 2010


On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 7:35 PM, Chris Hedley
<freebsd-current at chrishedley.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Renato Botelho wrote:
>
>> I've already had this problem in the past and seems it's back now.
>>
>> I use a Sun Type 7 USB keyboard. When my box is booting, and
>> FreeBSD menu shows up, I cannot press any key to go for a
>> single boot for example.
>>
>> ugen1.1: <UHCI root HUB VIA> at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps)
>> pwr=ON
>> ugen0.1: <UHCI root HUB VIA> at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps)
>> pwr=ON
>> ugen2.1: <UHCI root HUB VIA> at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps)
>> pwr=ON
>> ugen3.1: <UHCI root HUB VIA> at usbus3, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps)
>> pwr=ON
>> ugen4.1: <EHCI root HUB VIA> at usbus4, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps)
>> pwr=ON
>> ugen3.2: <product 0x100e vendor 0x0430> at usbus3, cfg=0 md=HOST
>> spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=SAVE
>> ugen3.3: <USB Mouse vendor 0x0566> at usbus3, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=LOW
>> (1.5Mbps) pwr=ON
>> ugen3.4: <Sun USB Keyboard vendor 0x0430> at usbus3, cfg=0 md=HOST
>> spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON
>>
>> Please let me know if you need more data.
>
> Do you have USB legacy support enabled in your BIOS?  I'm not sure if
> there's an option for the loader to use USB devices natively, but the BIOS's
> legacy option where it provides AT/PS2 emulation is probably the easiest way
> to get the keyboard working.

Yes, I do, but it seems to be a regression on FreeBSD itself, I had this problem
in the past and I checked the same things i need to check in the past again and
everything is fine.

-- 
Renato Botelho


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