Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> 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. 

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.

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

Thanks!


 -johan