In article <86A3089001A44141B76B882059E7E53B06C07E@m31.equallogic.com>,
	Sai Krishnamurthy <sai@equallogic.com> writes:
> 
>             I am a newbie to NetBSD. I had been using my NetBSD box
> passively by telneting into it for some time. When the system is booted,
> the keyboard will work only for a short time during the initial boot
> process and stops working after that. The console waits at the login
> prompt and I just can't type in anything. I ended up changing some
> network configuration file and now I cannot telnet anymore. I read
> somewhere about serial consoles. Will it help connecting a serial
> console to my system ??. If so, could someone tell me how to go about
> configuring this ??. Remember that the only time keyboard works is when
> entering initial netbsd boot options. I even tried bringing up the
> system in single user mode. In that case, the keyboard freezes again and
> won't let me type the default shell to be used. The system is a Dell
> dimension desktop with USB keyboard and mouse (no PS2 support in
> motherboard). The version of NetBSD I am using is 2.0.

Does the CMOS have a setting like "legacy USB keyboard"?  If so,
setting that to "yes" will make your USB keyboard look like a PS/2
to the OS, which should take care of your problem.


Frederick