no keyboard after booting r235646 in laptop FS Amilo D 7830

[Hans Petter Selasky]

On Sunday 01 July 2012 01:29:28 Erich Dollansky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Saturday, June 30, 2012 10:11:31 PM Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > El día Saturday, June 30, 2012 a las 01:49:58PM +0700, Erich Dollansky 
escribió:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > The IT guy of my company found this laptop in the attic and because
> > it has no Wifi, nobody is interested in using it anymore. As I said,
> > I could make use of it as a build machine and for this it must run
> > CURRENT and no older versions. I will install the USB booted system to
> > harddisk and hope when booted from disk and not from USB the keyboard is
> > working.
> 
> if 7.4 still runs but not anything after 8.0, it is most likely what I have
> written. Some USB hardware is not supported anymore in 8 and later.
> 
> I would install the old one just to see  You will also know wat hwardware
> is used there and how it is supported.
> 
> This might be the faster route before starting debugging something which is
> not there.
> 
> Erich

Try to compare pciconf -lv and dmesg.

--HPS