USB support + Supermicro IPMI KVM = no keyboard

[Niki Denev]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Steven Hartland
<killing at multiplay.co.uk> wrote:
>
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "Erik Stian Tefre" <erik at tefre.com>
>
>
>  > Steven Hartland wrote:
>  >> When booting a default kernel e.g. standard install cd the KVM over LAN
>  >> keyboard on Supermicro's IPMI modules refuse to function. Once installed
>  >> if we build a kernel without USB all is good.
>  >>
>  >> So two questions:-
>  >> 1. Can usb support be disabled from the loader?
>  >> 2. Anyone got any ideas why USB would break the IPMI keyboard?
>  >
>  > The IPMI keyboard is a USB keyboard. It seems to work OK on a box
>  > running 7.0:
>  >
>  > port 6 addr 2: high speed, self powered, config 1, Multidevice(0x0002),
>  > Peppercon AG(0x14dd), rev 0.01
>  >
>  > ukbd0: <Peppercon AG Multidevice, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 2> on uhub3
>  >
>  > The same box running 6.2 did not connect the device as a usb keyboard.
>
>  Thanks Eric unfortunately we had the same issue with 7.0-RC1 and 7.0-PREREL
>  I'll look at dropping usb back into our kernel we're running atm and
>  see if it detects the above as that might well help diagnose the issue.
>
>
>     Regards
>     Steve
>

We've had the same problem, and changing USB Mouse Type
from "Windows >= 2000, Mac OS X" to "Other Operating System"
made the keyboard available again.

P.S. : The setting is located under the KVM Settings->Keyboard/Mouse menu
on the IPMI web interface.


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