legacy USB setting in BIOS

[Kevin Kinsey]

Matthew Huggett wrote:

>Hello,
>
>
>I've been having trouble gettin a USB keyboard to work at all during
>installation of FreeBSD 5.3.  I've discovered that the only BIOS
>setting that makes a difference is enabling/disabling USB legacy
>support.  Disabling it makes my keyboard totally useless in that I
>can't even boot in to my existing Linux.  Booting from the Freesbie
>live CD gives me a mouse, but no keyboard, so I guess I'm not totally
>SOL.  Is there anyway to install FreeBSD 5.3 on a system that has no
>non-USB mouse/keyboard?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Matt
>
>  
>

To answer your question:  yes, I'm *pretty sure* there is.  Now,
to address the issue at large:  you should direct this email to
"questions at freebsd.org", because the "newbies" list/forum isn't
a] supposed to answer this according to list charter, BION, and
b] low-trafficked enough that it's been what, 4 days since you
asked and no one has responded?  The "more expert" types
read questions@, but newbies@ has a low readership, and
you can't expect support questions such as this answered....

Now, I seem to recall someone posting this or a very similar
question to the questions@ list a few days back, and there is
a way ... something in regard to a hint passed to the boot loader
via the escape prompt prior to booting the installation program.
Search the questions@ archives, and if you don't find the
answer, repost your question to the other list and see if you
don't have an answer in a few hours instead of a few days....

Good luck!

Kevin Kinsey