I recently inherited a Sun Ultra 5 from my company which I would like to use as a LAMP server. I downloaded the 13-CD sarge testing distribution (official snapshot 11/07/04) and got the system up and running normally with the Sun keyboard and mouse.
I have it connected to a 4-port USB KVM switch, and I bought and installed a Belkin F5U219 3-port (2 external, 1 internal) USB 2.0 PCI card so that I can use the USB keyboard & mouse instead of the Sun keyboard and mouse, which I would really like to get off of my desk. For the life of me, I cannot get the sparc to accept input from either the USB keyboard (Microsoft Internet Keyboard Pro) or the USB mouse (Kensington Expert Mouse Pro). When I plug in an external USB 2.0 CD-RW drive and type cdrecord --scanbus the CD-RW drive shows up just fine. Thus the USB subsystem appears to be functioning in general. On bootup, I also get plenty of messages indicating that the kernel found a USB keyboard and mouse. Under the double lines below is an excerpt from 'dmesg' that looks relevant to me. Does anyone out there know how to get a Sun Ultra 5 to accept input from a PC104 USB keyboard and a USB mouse? Any hints would be greatly appreciated. -Dan ============================================================= Excerpt from 'dmesg': ============================================================= PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 3.15.2 1998/11/10 10:35 Linux version 2.4.27-1-sparc64 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.4 (Debian 1:3.3.4-7)) #1 Mon Aug 23 23:59:55 PDT 2004 ARCH: SUN4U ... PCIO serial driver version 1.54 su(mouse) at 0x1fff13062f8 (irq = 4,7ea) is a 16550A Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00 su(kbd) at 0x1fff13083f8 (irq = 9,7e9) is a 16550A Sun TYPE 5 keyboard detected without keyclick SAB82532 serial driver version 1.65 ttyS00 at 0x1fff1400000 (irq = 12,7eb) is a SAB82532 V3.2 ttyS01 at 0x1fff1400040 (irq = 12,7eb) is a SAB82532 V3.2 ... usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice ... usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0x1ff02808000, IRQ 10,7d8 usb-ohci.c: usb-02:03.0, PCI device 1033:0035 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0x1ff0280a000, IRQ 10,7d9 usb-ohci.c: usb-02:03.1, PCI device 1033:0035 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 1 port detected ehci_hcd 02:03.2: PCI device 1033:00e0 ehci_hcd 02:03.2: irq 10,7da, pci mem 000001ff0280c000 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 ehci_hcd 02:03.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29/2.4 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 3 ports detected eth0: Link is up using internal transceiver at 100Mb/s, Full Duplex. usb.c: registered new driver hid hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team sunmouse: Successfully adjusted to 1200 baud.