Subject: Re: Keyboard not recognized during installation
To: George Coulouris <george@capybara.org>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-macppc
Date: 03/19/2004 15:53:30
At 10:27 AM -0500 3/19/04, George Coulouris wrote:
>On October 11, 2003, Nick Vanderweit wrote:
>>  I have been meaning to install NetBSD 1.6.1 on my late 2001 Apple iBook.
>>  Only problem is, when I boot from the install cd, everything looks fine
>>  until it asks for my terminal type. Then, I can't give any input. Any ideas?
>>  It worked fine when I tried to boot the 1.6 cd.
>
>I have the same experience with 1.6.2 on my 17" iMac; I get something like
>
>uhub0: device problem, disabling port 1
>
>and then I cannot enter anything at the terminal type prompt.
>
>Happens with the stock apple keyboard as well as my HHKL2 [1].
>
>Are there any workarounds for this? Can someone make a -current iso?

External USB keyboard instead of built-in?  Fixes some problems for 
some versions anyway.
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