Re: installing sarge with USB keyboard

[Sebastian Haase <haase@msg.ucsf.edu>]

This is just for the record;
I got it to work with temporarily using a different network card.
The keyboard worked fine with 2.6.12 (from the netinst CD I used)
but the Intel 1000 NIC [Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 
109a (rev 01) ]
only started working when I used a newer kernel from backports.org 
(2.6.15-SMP-EM64T)

Thanks for every bodies  help
- Sebastian Haase


Andrew Preater wrote:
> * Sebastian Haase <haase@msg.ucsf.edu> [2006-02-19 01:39]:
> > I just got a new Pentium D Dell PC and was very surprised when
> > it didn't respond on the first (choose language) screen of
> > debian-installer...  It took me a while, but then I realized:
> > The PC was using a USB keyboard !
>
> Strange, installation on my em64t PC worked fine with a USB
> keyboard.  Try enabling 'Legacy USB support' (or similar) in the
> BIOS, this will make the machine emulate a PS/2 keyboard in place
> of the USB one.  You can switch it back after installation.
>
> > Also I'm anticipating that there will be problems with the
> > "Intel 1000(?) gigabit" network card ?
>
> Should be fine, sarge has the e1000 driver.
>
> Andrew Preater