keyboard does not work in kernel space

[Sebastiaan van Erk]

Thanks for the reply!

Since I'm using full disk encryption and booting from a USB stick this 
is not really an option for me. The ENTIRE freebsd system (root + swap + 
user partitions) is on the encrypted device, which I want attached from 
the kernel. I'll disable kbdmux though, don't think I'll be needing that 
one (I hope).

Regards
Sebastiaan

Anders Nordby wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's a known problem. I reported it to Maksim Yevmenkin (author of kbdmux),
> who confirmed it.
>
> Workaround is to disable GEOM_ELI in your kernel, make sure you don't
> load it in loader.conf either, and instead add the disk/slice you want
> to attach to in geli_devices in /etc/rc.conf. Then you'll be asked to
> enter the passphrase from userland, which will be fine.
>
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 06:41:17PM +0200, Sebastiaan van Erk wrote:
>   
>> I just got a new Inspiron 9400 laptop and was trying to do full disk 
>> encryption with GEOM ELI. Everything seems to be working fine now, 
>> except that the keyboard does not seem to work in kernel space so that 
>> when my USB boot stick asks me for the passphrase of my internal hard 
>> drive, I cannot enter anything. I know this is not specific to GEOM ELI, 
>> since I was messing around with my USB pendrive and forgot to specify a 
>> root device, which the kernel prompted me for the root device and I had 
>> exactly the same problem: the keyboard did not work.
>>
>> When I change the root device to my pen drive it boots to the login 
>> prompt (user space), and the keyboard works fine at that moment.
>>
>> Is this problem familiar to anybody? Is there any way to solve it?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Sebastiaan
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