Subject: Re: grumpy keyboard.
To: Carrie Jones <carrie@cjones.org>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/28/2005 16:13:02
In message <41FAA6F6.90905@cjones.org>, Carrie Jones writes:
>Hello,
>
>I have a Compaq Presario R3000 Laptop. I have tried to install NetBSD 
>2.0 from a boot cd. The kernel seems to be bumping along fine and then 
>this error comes up:
>
>kbc : cmd word write error
>
>The kernel cheerfull goes on to initialize my pcmcia slots and then 
>hangs on the:
>
>No plug and play componets found
>
>I was able to install NetBSD 1.6 on this laptop, but never could get it 
>to work with the keyboard. (I messed with plugging a usb keyboard in 
>during the boot cycle and got a custom kernel compiled, but the keyboard 
>still wouldn't work.) Since it was so close to the time for 2.0 to come 
>out, I just waited and hoped for the best, but I fear that the keyboard 
>on this laptop is well and truly esoteric.

I'm guessing, but do you have ISA plug-and-play enabled in your BIOS?  
Try turning that off.

		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb