Re: legacy USB setting in BIOS

From: Kevin Kinsey (kdk_at_daleco.biz)
Date: 03/28/05

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    Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 10:17:39 -0600
    To: Matthew Huggett <mhuggett@zam.att.ne.jp>
    
    

    Matthew Huggett wrote:

    >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
    >
    >
    >

    To answer your question: yes, I'm *pretty sure* there is. Now,
    to address the issue at large: you should direct this email to
    "questions@freebsd.org", because the "newbies" list/forum isn't
    a] supposed to answer this according to list charter, BION, and
    b] low-trafficked enough that it's been what, 4 days since you
    asked and no one has responded? The "more expert" types
    read questions@, but newbies@ has a low readership, and
    you can't expect support questions such as this answered....

    Now, I seem to recall someone posting this or a very similar
    question to the questions@ list a few days back, and there is
    a way ... something in regard to a hint passed to the boot loader
    via the escape prompt prior to booting the installation program.
    Search the questions@ archives, and if you don't find the
    answer, repost your question to the other list and see if you
    don't have an answer in a few hours instead of a few days....

    Good luck!

    Kevin Kinsey
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