problem USB wireless keyboard and mouse
Hans Petter Selasky
hselasky at c2i.net
Fri Jan 8 08:05:39 UTC 2010
On Thursday 07 January 2010 23:31:16 tkorshnah at aim.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was directed by Kris of PC-BSD to this list to report following problem.
>
> I have a HP Pavillion m7760 2006 PC with wireless keyboard and wireless
> mouse. They work via a receiver which is connected in the PC by USB.
> The problem is both do not react when installing PC-BSD first screen.
> Same for FreeBSD8, as I tried to install as well.
> There is no reaction on Ctrl+alt+F1.
>
> In the messages previous the graphical install screen I managed to read the
> following;
>
> USB alloc device 1586
> USB alloc device 1624
> device descriptor failed at addr2
>
> later
>
> uhub reattach port: 435: could not allocate new device.
>
> According to Kris of PC-BSD it should be a problem wth the new USB
> subsystem of FreeBSD8.
>
> This is an issue that should be resolved.
> I still had a PS2 keyboard, but had to buy a PS2 mouse in order to install.
> Well, buying a PS2 mouse is becoming quite hard.
> They are all USB nowadays.
> Without proper USB support BSD will not survive.
>
> Besides this, BSD is the best OS I ever used. Stable, fast...a
> Linux-killer...
>
Hi,
Do other USB devices work?
Does an ordinary USB keyboard work?
What I need is output from:
usbconfig dump_device_desc dump_curr_config_desc
Of your system when your mouse+keyboard device is plugged in.
It might also be a recent problem of ACPI where some resources were not
correctly mapped.
--HPS
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