Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On a 2.0 laptop, the system won't boot properly with a USB keyboard 
> connected.
> 
> To be precise, the machine is a Thinkpad R51; the keyboard is a compact 
> IBM PS/2 keyboard, hooked to the machine via a Belkin PS/2-to-USB 
> adapter.  (R51s have no integral PS/2 ports.)  The keyboard is 
> recognized as such by the BIOS; at least, one can talk to the NetBSD
> boot prompt with it.
> 
> The problem occurs while it is probing the USB space -- it hangs when 
> it gets to that device.  Has anyone seen this?  Any fix for it?

I've not seen that problem before.  Have you tried turning off
the USB-to-PS/2 emulation in BIOS?

	-- Lennart