Subject: Re: troubles with USB keyboard
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/20/2005 19:39:31
Could you try again with the latest updates to the ehci driver?

	-- Lennart

Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Hi,
> I got new dell systems with EMT64 CPUs. These systems don't have visible
> PS/2 ports and use a USB keyboard and mouse. For test purposes I installed
> netbsd-3/i386 and netbsd-3/amd64 from releng.
> With a AMD64 boot floppy and with amd64/GENERIC kernel, the keyboard is
> detected and functionnal if plugged in at boot. If I disconnect it, the
> kernel sees it go away but nothing happens when I reconnect. Not a big
> deal.
> With i386 boot floppu, i386/GENERIC, i386/GENERIC.MP and i386/GENERIC.MPACPI,
> the keyboard doesn't work: the kernel doesn't detect it at all. I tried
> with an apple keyboard, it's not detected either. The USB ports are working,
> I tested with a USB mouse.
> 
> My guess is that this has something to do with the PS/2 keyboard emulation,
> but there's no BIOS option to disable this. It's strange that it's working
> with amd64 and not i386, though. Linux/i386 doesn't have problems with
> this.
> 
> Any idea ? Getting the keyboard working ins't a big deal for me, these
> systems won't run NetBSD yet (I installed only for tests purposes), but
> as I can play with the systems it would be nice to get this working out
> of the box for i386.
>