Absolute Newbie - USB Keyboard not recognized

youshi10 at u.washington.edu youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Tue Jun 5 22:14:52 UTC 2007


On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Oscar Chavarria wrote:

> On 6/5/07, Garrett Cooper <youshi10 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Oscar Chavarria wrote:
>> > I have used the latest tip in the mailing list archives, to move the
>> > cable
>> > to another USB physical port, but still the keyboard will not work at
>> the
>> > BSD prompt..
>> >
>> > The purpose is to boot as single user.
>> >
>> > Thanks is advance for any help.
>>     What version do you have installed and what's your motherboard maker?
>>     Did you also remember to put (proper) usb support in the kernel?
>> -Garrett
>> 
>
> Version: FreeBSD 6.1
>
> Motherboard: VIA. I ran dmesg > file and went through it but couldn't make
> out the model.
>
> USB should be supported because I succesfully mounted a USB external HDD on
> /home. I used this last physical port to attach the keyboard to make sure I
> had a working port, but to no avail.
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Regards
>
> Oscar Chavarria
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ukbd and uhid compiled into the kernel, or is this kernel GENERIC?

Also, please make sure to CC the list next time ;).
-Garrett



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