El día Saturday, June 30, 2012 a las 01:49:58PM +0700, Erich Dollansky escribió:

> > > > I have a boot-able USB key with r235646 which works fine in all my
> > > > laptops so far; today I got as a gift an older FS Amilo D 7830 which has
> > > > enough resources to use it as new build machine (1 GByte RAM, 80 GByte
> > > > disk). I booted  it with from the USB key and after the system is up it
> > > > does not echo or react on any key-press; before booting the keys are
> > > > working, for example in the menu to boot into single user etc.
> > > > 
> > > > What could be the problem?
> > > > 
> > > > I will later configure that the USB booted system brings Ethernet and
> > > > SSH up, maybe I can see something when I can login via SSH...
> > 
> > I have just for beeing curios booted an older USB key with r214444
> > (from October 2010) and the keyboard just works as it should;
> > 
> I have had a problem like this before. I have had to stick with an older 
> FreeBSD version on this machine.
> 
> Can you try FreeBSD 7.4 or 8.3?
> 
> It is sad to say but some times support for older hardware gets cut out for 
> whatever reason.

The IT guy of my company found this laptop in the attic and because
it has no Wifi, nobody is interested in using it anymore. As I said,
I could make use of it as a build machine and for this it must run CURRENT
and no older versions. I will install the USB booted system to harddisk
and hope when booted from disk and not from USB the keyboard is working.

Ofc, I would be willing to help debugging this, for example compiling a
kernel with special options and/or debug printfs; but I can't start such
a debug path on my own, because I have no clue about where to start.

HIH

        matthias
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Matthias Apitz
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UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5
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