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Re: Keyboard Problem with V5.1 on an E4000



On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Michael Thompson wrote:

> I am trying to revive an E4000. I did a "boot cdrom" at the OpenBoot
> prompt, NetBSD boots, displays a bunch of configuration messages on
> the console, changes the configuration of the video display (it says
> wsdisplay0) displays the configuration messages, and asks for the
> terminal type. At this point the keyboard stops working.  A "stop-A"
> will not get it back to OpenBoot. They keyboard works OK with
> OpenSolaris.
> 
> Ideas?

I expect the standard kernel config doesn't support the driver attachment 
points you need.  

How is your keyboard attached to your E4K?  What's the OBP device path for 
the keyboard and display?  Do you have SBus or PCI I/O cards?

Eduardo



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