Subject: USB keyboard and Sun Blade 100?
To: None <port-sparc64@NetBSD.org>
From: Philip Jensen <philip.jensen@solnetsolutions.co.nz>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 09/08/2004 20:40:17
I have trawled the 'net, and the NetBSD mailing lists but so far have 
been unable to find anyone who has managed to get the USB keyboard 
working with a Sun Blade 100 so it could be used as a workstation (with 
X, etc).  I have seen many references to it "being possible with 
2.0_BETA", etc.

I have installed NetBSD 2.0_BETA, and compiled a kernel using GENERIC (& 
GENERIC32) as a base.  I made a small mod to my copy of GENERIC32 to 
include the ukbd* driver (cut & paste from the i386 GENERIC config).  
Recompiled the kernel,  installed and rebooted, and when the keyboard is 
plugged in it is recognised by the kernel which now loads the ukbd 
driver (the GENERIC kernel uses the uhidev driver from memory) as 
expected, but pressing the [Enter] key on the Sun USB keyboard yields no 
results.  So my hack seems to get the USB interface to load the driver, 
but the console does not seem to use the attached keyboard.

If you have any information, especially a working kernel config, then 
please let me know.

Many thanks

PS The sound card (autri0) works beautifully which impressed a friend of 
mine who has been using Debian/Linux for SPARC without being able to get 
sound to work.


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