USB keyboard in FreeBSD 10 amd64 installer

[Joshua Lokken]

Tried again with PS/2, hit Enter, then just waited.  Eventually, the boot
started, got a few lines into the ACPI stuff, then hung.  Looks like no
FreeBSD 10 amd64 on this box :(  I needed to upgrade, anyway...


On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Joshua Lokken <jrlokken at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've have tried about everything possible at this point:
>
> I use onboard audio, so no -- nVidia chipset for the NIC, audio and USB,
> all are ON.  USB works just great, until the installer screen loads -- all
> I can do consistently is Ctrl-Alt-Del to reboot, no other keypresses
> generate any signal.
>
> In fact, I just tried with a PS/2 keyboard, and I've used those with
> FreeBSD forever, and _never_ had a problem.  Same behavior in this case, no
> keypresses work except for Ctrl-Alt-Del.
>
> I've cleared the CMOS and meticulously gone through every setting, nothing
> I've found works so far.
>
> I just dl'ed the i386 iso, just to test, but I've run out of blank media
> for the immediate time being, so I'll have another go at it tomorrow.
>
> Does anyone know of any way to get past this installer screen without a
> working keyboard?  Or is there another installation method I could
> attempt?  Thanks again.
>
>
> Joshua
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:44 PM, Matt Bettinger <iamatt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Did you disable audio in the bios?  On an Intel mini atx system I have
>> the onboard nic and  USB would not work with audio device disabled, yeah.
>> On Apr 7, 2014 9:53 PM, "Erich Dollansky" <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Mon, 7 Apr 2014 19:43:06 -0700
>>> Joshua Lokken <jrlokken at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > There are 3 USB-related BIOS options, basically:
>>> >
>>> > USB On/Off
>>> > Legacy USB On/Off
>>> > USB Mass Storage On/Off
>>> >
>>> > I tried with Legacy USB both on and off, same results.  I checked the
>>> > mobo manual, and all ports are USB 2.0/1.1, no BIOS updates available.
>>> >
>>> Some keyboards need the legacy stuff. As all your ports are USB 2, it
>>> has to work.
>>>
>>> Erich
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