On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 04:15:17PM -0500, Johan A. van Zanten wrote:
> Looking at the output more closely, it appears to be a USB problem.
> 
> The keyboard works OK in (what i assume is) the boot loader.
> 
> But just before the installation screen comes up, at the end of all the
> kernel messages, i see this:
> 
> uhub0: device problem, disabling port2.
> 
>  I've tried two different USB keyboards (the Dell that came with the
> system and a Sun type-6 USB) and both generate errors, in whichever of the
> 6 USB ports they are plugged into.
> 
>  I'm pretty sure the hardware is OK (as well as the USB "hub" onboard),
> because i'm using the same hardware to type this message, but running
> Kubuntu.
> 
>  The latest FreeBSD current ISO installer (April '07) has a similar
> problem -- it also complains about a USB error, and the keyboard does not
> work at the installation screen.

Hum, maybe a kernel without ehci could help then ...
You could try:
boot -c
disable ehci
quit

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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