Unresponsive keyboard after a few boots

[Chris Rees]

On 8 February 2010 11:47, Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd at jdc.parodius.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 02:19:06PM +0530, Rohit Grover wrote:
>> I am using a very recent Freebsd 8.0 STABLE on a Macbook. I updated my
>> sources and rebuilt a kernel about 3 days ago. I was able to use the
>> machine fine once or twice after that. But now the keyboard has
>> stopped working. The boot program is able to use the keyboard, but the
>> kernel isn't, and I am unable to do anything useful with the machine
>> from the login screen.
>>
>> I had rebuilt the kernel twice with slightly varying settings, so I
>> don't have a copy of the previously working kernel in
>> /boot/kernel.old.
>>
>> It may not be easy for me to download a ISO image. Can someone please help?
>
> Is the keyboard USB?
>

No Mac since late generation Powerbooks and iBooks has used ADB, so
yes, the Macbook
keyboard is USB.

HTH,

Chris