>> It seems that with the particular hardware in use, the keyboard
>> never sends back a reset byte (0xff) when it gets reset...or at
>> least, the kernel never sees it if it does.

> You might want to check the config switches on your kbd.  Check
> behind the trap door on the bottom of the kbd and make sure the
> switches are set the same way as the folks who's kbds send the
> 0xff's.

The guilty keyboard is a type-4, and all 8 switches are set OFF.  I
don't have any other type-4 handy to compare it with.  There is a
type-3 (my own) that does not misbehave when connected to the kernel
and CPU with which I saw the problem.

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