As soon as I fired off the email to the list, I found the solution on Google: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/25/2003/10/2/101092 I just had to look for the problem on any laptop, not my specific laptop. The problem is that the hardware detection stuff can't see the keyboard unless it is generating events. I just had to tap the spacebar during the hardware detection/kernel load stage of the install and everything works fine now. I hear that once you have installed, it will detect it on bootup fine. Thanks for the help, Richard Esplin
On Wednesday 05 November 2003 10:35, Richard Esplin wrote: > I bought a new laptop, and it arrived today. It is an HP Pavilion ze4500. > The Internet tells me that Linux will run fine on it, but I'm having a > difficult time installing. Everything works fine when the install CD boots, > and I can hit Enter to boot the CD. Once the kernel has loaded, it won't > recognize anything from the keyboard. I plugged in a PS/2 keyboard and that > also will only work until the kernel is loaded. I can't find anything in > the BIOS that would seem to relate to this problem, nor in the manual, nor > on Google. I have tried Fedora, Debian, and Gentoo. I am getting rather > frustrated. Any ideas? > Richard Esplin > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
