On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:25:05AM -0500, Johan A. van Zanten wrote:
> 
> 
>  Greetings.
> 
>  I got a new desktop at work, a Dell Optiplex 745.  It has no PS/2 port
> for keyboard or mouse -- it's only USB.  There's also nothing in the BIOS
> that would enable any sort  of PS2<-USB legacy support.
> 
>  The NetBSD-4 installation ISO (from 2 days ago) i used to create a CDROM
> did boot and come up, but the USB keyboard was not recognized.

Strange ... I played with different USB-only hardwares and didn't get
in this kind of issues. 

> 
>  Is there any way to work around this with the USB keyboard?  Or should i
> try a serial installation? (I'm unfamliar with PC hardware ... is there a
> way to force the console to the serial port -- it's got a builtin video
> chipset, as well as an ATI card?)

'console com0' at the boot prompt; or use the boot-com.iso iso image from
installation/cdrom/

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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