OranegMicro USB/FW PCI card on beige G3

[Fred Klein <fred.klein@free.fr>]

Continued "Non native USB Mac"

Hi List

My configuration:
Beige G3 MT 333, 256MB, ATI64
PCI
OrangeMicro FireWire+USB
Utrawide SCSI (sym53c8xx)
Voodoo2 3dfx

My distribution:
Debian r3, 7 CD set (downloaded images for PPC)

My problem:
I tried different kernels (vmlinux, wmlinux24, linux.bin) with BootX122.
They all lead to the same:
The system freezes at various random steps:
- setup network interface
- usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
- kernel panic
- and so on...

I finally decided to remove my USB card and everything was fine until I had
to configure my system with tasksel:
I need the space bar to select packages and the space bar of my ADB keyboard
is dead (this is precisely why I bought USB card and devices).

So, what should I do as the kernel does not seem to like my USB card?
I cannot proceed without USB as my ADB keyboard's space bar is dead.

Any idea?
Is there a chance that getting some working ADB keyboard I could install
Debian and recompile a working kernel? (I have NO clue about how to do that)

Thanks in advance.
Cheers
Fred