From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 8 04:25:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA07856 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 04:25:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fw-cam.cambridge.arm.com (firewall-user@fw-cam.cambridge.arm.com [193.131.176.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA07846 for ; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 04:25:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jschneider@cix.co.uk) Received: by fw-cam.cambridge.arm.com; id MAA07323; Wed, 8 Jul 1998 12:25:30 +0100 Received: from sun1.cambridge.arm.com(172.16.1.1) by fw-cam.cambridge.arm.com via smap (3.2) id xma007321; Wed, 8 Jul 98 12:25:05 +0100 Received: from sun76 (doc) by arm.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA02291; Wed, 8 Jul 98 12:25:04 BST Message-Id: <35A3570D.16B4@cix.co.uk> Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 12:25:01 +0100 From: Jon Schneider Organization: None X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: FreeBSD 2.2.6 chokes on my keyboard Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have not managed to get an answer to this from usenet or search engines. I obtained a (Cheapbytes) FreeBSD 2.2.6 and set about installing. I created a boot floppy from the image on the CD (not being able to boot off it directly). On booting I choose fullscreen configuration (rather than CLI or skip) and sort out the devices. I then save+quit. The kernel restarts. A load of devices are then listed but early on there is an error message like (from memory) sc0: Unable to restore keyboard command bye and Unable to set keyboard control byte and something about port 0x60 After "probing" which thrashes the disks the coloured fullscreen installation menu appears but I cannot do anything as my keyboard is disabled. Works on another machine so I think the floppy and my actions are ok. I don't know of anything strange with this established 486 DX4-100 VL-bus machine which runs linux ok. What could be wrong ? Regards, Jon Schneider To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message