Johan A. van Zanten <johan@giantfoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 06:52:39PM -0500, Johan A. van Zanten wrote:
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > md0: internal 5000 KB image area
> > > uhidev0 at uhub0 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0
> > > uhidev0: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse, rev 2.00/20.00, addr 2, iclass 3/1
> > > uhid at uhidev0 not configured
> > 
> 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> > That's very strange; it finds a mouse without problems, but it seems
> > it doesn't see any keyboard on USB.
> > It also finds a pckbc0, but no pckbd (probably because there's really
> > none).
> > Could you try a 'disable pckbc0' ? Maybe accessing the controller is enough
> > to make the USB keyboard misbehave ...
> 
> 
>  I tried this today, and it didn't help.  Seems like something weird with
> the USB on that Dell.  The latest Linux distributions seems to work with
> it OK, but FreeBSD has the same problem (even after i tried some
> workarounds i found via google.)
> 
>  -johan

 One last comment for anyone else who reads this thread looking for a
solution -- i went to the local used computer depot / salvage and bought a
PCI card with two USB 1.x ports for $5 US.  The same keyboard worked fine
connected to this card instead of the built-in USB ports.  So it seems
pretty clear that the problem is with the USB chip on at least some of the
current Optiplex models.

 -johan