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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