RE: help! my usb keyboard works only slightly on install
Unfortunately I don't have a Sun keyboard. Also, this same behavior
occurred with a non-Sun box.
David Gluss
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew M.A. Cater [mailto:amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 1:45 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: help! my usb keyboard works only slightly on install
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:33:14PM -0800, David Gluss wrote:
>
> I did achieve success by setting the root password to 888, and
> skipping the create user step. This was done with a USB-ps2 dongle.
> So the installation kernel definitely supports USB. The serial
> console is the (darn it) obvious answer...but too late for this
go-round.
>
> I can report that as far as I can tell so far, the Sun x4100 is a
smokin'
> hot machine. Boots really fast.
>
Use a _Sun_ USB keyboard. Don't use a PC keyboard, don't use a dongle -
otherwise you get randomness.
Suns, in my experience have "different USB" - certainly, I had to dig up
a Sun USB keyboard to get a Linux install to work on a relatively recent
Sun.
Andy
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