>Strange!  It was tested on a B&W G3!
>
>What does the OFW device tree look like on your friend's machine?

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/cpus
  /PowerPC,750@0
    /l2-cache
/chosen
[... options, packages, etc.]
/psuedo-usb
/psuedo-hid
  /keyboard
  /mouse
/multiboot
/rtas
/pci@80000000
  /pci-bridge@d
    /mac-io@5
      /interrupt-controller@10
      /scsi@10000
[... some devices]
    /firewire@0
    /pci-ata@1
      /ata-4@0
    /usb@6
      /hub@2
        /keyboard@1
        /mouse@3
  /ATY,Rage128y@10


0 > dev keyboard  ok
0 > pwd /psuedo-hid/keyboard ok
0 > .properties
name			keyboard
 ok


0 > dev usb .properties
vendor-id		00001045
device-id		0000c861
revision-id		00000010
class-code		000c0310
interrupts		00000001
min-grant		00000000
max-latency		00000000
subsystem-vendor-id	00001045
subsystem-id		0000c861
devsel-speed		00000001
fast-back-to-back
name			usb
device_type		usb
reg			00013000 00000000 00000000  00000000 00000000
			02013010 00000000 00000000  00000000 00001000
#address-cells		00000001
#size-cells		00000000
compatible		pci1045,c861
			pciclass,0c0310
assigned-addresses	82013010 00000000 80880000  00000000 00001000

 ok
0 > pwd /pci@80000000/pci-bridge@d/usb@6 ok