Subject: Re: USB keyboard and 1.5BETA_2
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Kent Polk <kent@tiamat.goathill.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/28/2000 19:02:17
On 28 Nov 2000 09:25:00 -0600, Scott Bartram wrote:
>Mark White wrote:
>> 
>> >>>>> On Mon 27/11/00, "sb" = Scott Bartram wrote:
>> 
>>   sb> I was upgrading an AMI BIOS 486 box to 1.5 yesterday. After
>>   sb> installation and rebooting a GENERIC-based kernel with wscons,
>>   sb> the keyboard was completely locked up. The system was otherwise
>>   sb> functional. I tried all kinds of different kernels until I
>>   sb> realized that INSTALL doesn't use wscons.  Building a new kernel
>>   sb> with pccons fixed it.
>> 
>> Did you check the wscons devices had been created?  (Do it
>> using "./MAKEDEV wscons" in /dev).
>
>yes, all the ws* devices were there and I doubled-checked against another
>working 1.5 system.

I posted a note back in Sept regarding this problem with 1.4.2.
Had to compile a kernel with pccons also. Haven't tried it with
1.5 yet.

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NetBSD 1.4.2 (CHOPPER.142b) #0: Wed Sep 13 22:50:33 CDT 2000