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Re: Grub and Wireless Keyboard



On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 20:10 -0500, Neal Murphy wrote:
> On Monday, November 12, 2012 06:32:22 PM Dr Beco wrote:
> > Last week my keyboard broke, and I bought a wireless set
> > keyboard+mouse that comes with a usb transmitter.
> > 
> > Yesterday I realize I can not chose an item from the grub menu during boot.
> > ...
> > But, still... Is there any solution? Maybe something to add grub a
> > functionality?
> > 
> > Specially, the wireless keyboard, I think it should work. After all,
> > it is just a USB keyboard from the system's perspective, isn't it?
> 
> Look for a BIOS setting involving USB and 'legacy' that would treat the USB 
> kbd/mouse as though they were legacy wired units.
Unfortunately, if such settings are available but not set, there is no
way to set them with a wireless keyboard.  Or am I missing something?

I'm currently struggling to configure a box without a keyboard or
display, and wondering if a wireless keyboard would work for me....

Ross


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