legacy USB setting in BIOS

From: Matthew Huggett (mhuggett_at_zam.att.ne.jp)
Date: 03/25/05

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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 00:05:15 +0900 (JST)

    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

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